no.

stop.

look at the candidates for president at the last debate.

- biden is a conservative southern democrat.

- warren was a republican into middle age, and still sounds like one on fiscal issues, which is what she really cares about

- bloomberg was a republican for most of his life as well, and sounds like one on most issues

- buttigieg is what you would call a small-c conservative, and would probably have been a republican if he wasn't gay. i've called him a log cabin republican, and it's kind of true. there are actually speeches where obama openly admits that he only ended up as a democrat because the republicans wouldn't have him due to the racism. one wonders....
- klobuchar markets herself as being appealing to conservatives

- and, while sanders calls himself a democratic socialist, he's more in the tradition of progressive capitalism, and is probably the closest thing to an adherent of traditional capitalism in the batch. you hear this line from the libertarian right all of the time, about how really existing capitalism isn't really capitalism, it's "corporatism" and we need "real capitalism". if you look at sanders' proposals with a sober eye, you can see that he's essentially operating from this right-libertarian ideological position, even when he leap frogs the austrian economics in favour of a literal reading of adam smith, and trying to design a more pure type of capitalism, rather than overturn it or dismantle it. in that sense, there is a comparison to fdr, even if his policies are actually far less socialist than fdr's were. that's really what krugman was pointing out, and he is right to do it.

so, that's a bunch of fucking conservatives running for president under the democratic party.

and, what is trump? he's not a trostkyist neo-con, granted, even if he's surrounded by them. but he's hardly a conservative. he's an autocrat, an authoritarian, a "strong leader". a demagogue. he's almost better describable as a member of the chinese communist party than as a member of the john birch society, which seems to have resurrected itself in the form of adam schiff.

i know i've beaten this horse badly, but it's true.

and, while you can't fault some people for repeating what they're told, and shouldn't expect more from them than it, there are some people that you expect should know better than to use smear tactics, or abuse the language.