jason1637 on 11 August 2019
| the-pi-guy said: >Yang and Gabbard are far-right darlings (most of their supporters have voted Trump over Clinton at 5:1 and 12:1 rates respectively, according to YouGov) polling at 0% with the democratic mainstream, so I wouldn't lump them together with the other progressives. Besides, Yang lost votes in the data I posted. That's very interesting for Yang. I've heard that conservatives like the idea of replacing welfare with UBI, but it's different to actually see a little data showing that support. |
I wouldn't call Yang a far right darling. Even if 5:1 may have supported Trump in 2016 you got ot keep in mind that 10-11% of Trump voters had previously voted for Obama and a lot of them voted for Trump because they had witnessed their jobs being automated away. Yang appeals to a lot of these folks because he's addressing problems that they're dealing with.
As for UBI it's a relatively progressive idea that oddly enough seems to have a good amount of right wing support. Richard Nixon pushed for it during his presidency and Alaska has it's own form of UBI already in place.
