In 2016, Stern led a course at UCLA Extension on the 2016 election that was attended almost exclusively by Los Angeles liberals. To their question, “How could anyone vote for Trump?” Stern devised an unusual exercise.
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What if Trump was a Democrat, Stern asked, who embraced the Democratic platform, said his first appointment to the Supreme Court would be Merrick Garland (the Obama pick for the top court who never got a Senate hearing), and his second nomination would go to Obama himself?
At least two-thirds of his class of progressives said they’d vote for Trump.
Party matters and character issues are a luxury in politics.
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