ANDREW YANG - PROFILE
Walking away from wealth and prestige dismayed his
immigrant parents. But it made Yang into the entrepreneur running for president.
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Noted Economist Greg Mankiw: I am no longer a
Republican
“I just came back from city hall, where I switched my
voter registration from Republican to unenrolled (aka independent). Two
reasons:
First, the Republican Party has largely become the
Party of Trump. Too many Republicans in Congress are willing, in the interest
of protecting their jobs, to overlook Trump's misdeeds (just as too many
Democrats were for Clinton during his impeachment). I have no interest in
associating myself with that behavior. Maybe someday, the party will return to
having honorable leaders like Bush, McCain, and Romney. Until then, count me
out.
Second, in Massachusetts, unenrolled voters can vote
in either primary. The Democratic Party is at a crossroads, where it has to
choose either a center-left candidate (Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Yang) or a
far-left populist (Warren, Sanders) as their nominee for president. I intend to
help them choose the former. The latter propose to move the country too far in
the direction of heavy-handed state control. And in doing so, they tempt those
in the center and center-right to hold their noses and vote for Trump's
reelection.”