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Have you seen me hawking Jon Ossoff's campaign?The XL wrote:
You're way too fixated on this Democrat Republican us vs them thinking. They play ball for the same team when it matters most.
I care about the truth a lot more than I do about the Democrats. I'm just not naive about the seriousness of one party "investigating" its own.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Trump has been all over the map politically in the course of his life. I can remember him once coming off to me as an almost-rational guy (never completely there, but close for a billionaire) who supported things like Medicare for all and women's reproductive rights and so on. But that was then and this is now. Since the election of our first black president, Trump has, like far too many more ordinary people of otherwise progressive persuasion, let racism push him far to the right and into the Republican camp; indeed to the right of where most Republicans were before his campaign, frankly. Today he's a card-carrying, "alt-right" Republican who has remade that party in his image to a substantial degree, and the Republicans see him as their man. Every Republican on this forum supports him, probably to the point of death if it came to it. For that very reason, the Congressional Republicans (the vast majority anyway) will do anything to save his ass.Ethereal wrote:
Except Trump was never one of the party's own. He was seen as an outsider by the establishment in both parties.