Is Donald Trump Running to the Left of Hillary Clinton?

SPOILER: uh, no, and anybody who makes this claim is massively incompetent.

I mean, it’s one thing for the HA! Goodmans of the world to cherry-pick one or two issues (trade being the most obvious) where Trump’s incoherent rants have elements that are to the left of Clinton’s and use this to conclude that Clinton is no different or worse than Trump, but when this kind of abject nonsense appears in the Washington Post it’s another matter. It’s going to be remarkable how quickly the media tries to pretend that Trump is just a normal candidate and tries to aggressively blur the massive policy differences between them (to the extent to which Trump can be said to have policy positions at all.)