curious whether leftists attacking mccain after he criticized trump helps or hurts plausible mccain objective of undermining trump. cases:
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1. mccain + those w/ similar mindset see they'll get no support from should-be fellow travelers and say fuck it, fuck these people
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2. mccain + similar are attacked by left, building their cache on right. weird story but maybe fits with caplan model of right politics
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3. mccain and similar don't gaf because they don't need those voters and left will support undermining trump regardless. no effect.
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anyway it seems like bad form on the left to burn potential allies to ingroup signal otoh this is the story of the contemporary left so
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the contemporary left looks more and more like mid-00s Republicans with their fetishization of ideological purity
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interesting comparison! hadn't thought of that but seems apt on a first pass fucking bummer :(
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