Re: US Election 2024
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Originally Posted by Chris
(Post 36182437)
I think perhaps you don’t understand American politics. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are right wing when calibrated against social and economic norms of British politics.
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Oh, I think I have a decent grasp of modern American politics, I’ll give you Democrats may show up on the right economically, and perhaps some older boomers Socially, but I would argue that Dems now peg further left socially in some areas than we do.
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Trump, however, is an extremist, to the point where plenty of card-carrying republicans who served under him in his 2016-2020 administration, are refusing to endorse him. Some of them have endorsed Kamala Harris.
You might expect Tory supporters to be sympathetic to the party of Ronald Reagan in normal times. Trump is not normal times. Apparently Reform UK supporters are the only ones who don’t see that in significant numbers.
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The fact that half the country voted for him in 2016, and again in 2020, and will no doubt do so again in a few months……….would suggest that Trump is indeed “normal times” |
