I think this is a usefully sophisticated way of thinking about the "moderation" issue -- going hard right on some issues allows a Republican to be more moderate on others. But I'll add that a lot of Trump's supposed moderation was in level of rhetoric.
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mean to put in this link on the "usefully sophisticated way of thinking about moderation issue"https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1390703477819691010 …
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Trump got some milage from fact that Bush-Cheney were so extreme. His foreign policy was pretty hard right but he didn't launch a cataclysmic war of choice that will wreck havoc for decades to come. Nor did he try to privatize social security.
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A moderating force which caused the first interruption to peaceful transition of power since the Civil War
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There have been ideologically moderate dictators, yes.
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Sometimes trying to be a reflexive contrarian leads you too illogical places
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Theory: this man believes in nothing and just likes to hear/read himself think.
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He is, as Lenin would derisively call trade unionists, an "economist". He cares about materially helping people. As opposed to your ilk, where materially helping people is fine, but it's secondary or even tertiary to winning the greater ideological wars
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Seems like it's on a different axis than traditional left/right government social spending, though.
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Jeet I’m begging you to unfollow that dude.
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