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MM's avatar

Beyond the legit horror of what these guys (including Trump) will do, it's just so tragic that if the Rs could manage to shake Trump and run reasonable candidates, they could cement strong majorities for the next couple *decades* b/c so many of us Ds (myself included) are utterly fed up with the radical wing that has captured our own party.

Must it end up being this ideological, zero-sum arms race where both parties just gleefully spiral themselves (and all of us) into destruction?

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Frank Lee's avatar

MAGA isn't radical unless we agree that traditional Democrat Party principles were radical before the radicals took over the Democrat Party.

If you disagree, then PALLEEAASSE... tell me what those MAGA platform issues are that are so radical. Maybe supporting the American working class? Demanding border security? Demanding criminal laws be enforced and criminals be prosecuted and punished? Defending free speech rights? Defending 2A rights? Supporting oil production, low inflation and low interest rates? Supporting good-paying working class jobs for existing Americans? Demanding that government not be weaponized to destroy political opponents and instead that government power be used to serve the people? Putting SCOTUS judges on the bench that are not radical activist that cannot define woman? Keeping the US involved in expensive and useless foreign conflicts? Driving our debt and deficits orders of magnitude higher than they have ever been, and demanding even more debt spending to buy votes? Keeping woke out of the classroom, government and military? Supporting Israel and opposing the terrorists? Want males to be defined as males, and females to be defined as female as that is what the science says?

Are those the radical ideas that MAGA supports. Because if that is radical, I guess most of the country is radical.

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