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Again, to be fair, she proposed (though now rescinded I believe) price controls on food.

That's not really "far-left" or "Marxist", at least in my book. But then again, I'm not American. At some point, I believe Trump also proposed some pretty aggressive protectionist policies concerning foreign imports.

Trump did indeed propose some protectionist policies concerning foreign imports. It was oddly left leaning. Makes me wonder if the parties are switching platforms again.

Some of her platform like the race-based "forgivable loans", etc. is very far-left - even in Europe.

> ...when at best she would be center, center-left to an European eye.

You must understand something about her platform and policies, I sure don't. She hasn't said much of substance. All the bitching between the two of them is like watching my children argue.

That is true, but her party's economic policies have been consistently neoliberalist in the recent past.