He moved to the center compared to a standard Republican presidential candidate
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Replying to @NickRiccardi @philnelson
(for Phil) also see Yglesias on this:https://www.vox.com/2019/7/2/20677656/donald-trump-moderate-extremism-penalty …
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It’s scary when this sinks in: Trump reads as an extremist to highly engaged voters, but a moderate to centrists and Republicans who don’t care about the reality show.
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Super weird how I remember Trump calling Mexicans rapists right from day one of his campaign, or funding with the Khan's during the party conference season, and being exposed as a sexual assaulter in the final weeks of the campaign.
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Nobody is saying those aren’t extremely bad things, but as an issue-profile candidate, outside immigration, he’s moderate to the point of being an uncomfortable fit for the party. See also Tim Alberta’s _American Carnage_.
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Those don't seem like things only highly engaged non-swing voters knew about ... and it's not like Clinton is a radical. The alternative was more moderate. My takeaway is that many swing voters are extremely flexible but they didn't want an establishment candidate being installed
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Replying to @colmmacc
Again, moderate for a Republican. The preferred choice of people who are going to vote R almost no matter what, but aren’t on board for the Freedom Caucus agenda or the religious right.
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Replying to @tqbf
Why waste time or energy trying to placate folks who are going to vote R almost no matter what? And why sacrifice justice and greater outcomes for more people in the process. Those people have to be defeated, not persuaded.
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Replying to @colmmacc
Regardless of how we choose to respond to facts, it’s important to make sure we collect them as best we can. I don’t know what kind of “persuasion” or “placation” you mean. Trump’s not a moderate on immigration, for sure, but on pretty much the rest of the GOP issues, he is.
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Replying to @tqbf
Trump is fighting the ACA in the courts with no replacement plan. Even the most extreme Republican Congress ever backed down from throwing it out. He's not even close to moderate. His rotating cabinet regularly features wing-nuts and doomsday cultists.
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If your argument is that he dishonestly ran as a moderate, he certainly isn't running as one now. That at least should diminish the swing votes he gets, by your own theory.
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