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Twilight Patriot's avatar

It's funny, because with the Democrats it's the opposite effect - candidates for office act all reasonable and project good vibes, but if put in office they'll pick their judges and bureaucrats from the same hard-left pool that's been stifling the economy and giving us radical, unpopular policies on race and sex and crime for the last sixty-odd years. It's a theme I addressed in one of my own recent posts: "Why it Doesn't Matter if Tim Walz is a Moderate Democrat":

https://twilightpatriot.substack.com/p/why-it-doesnt-matter-if-tim-walz

It is indeed ironic that the opposite thing happens on the Right - the candidate says all kinds of unhinged things, but then, if voted in, he has to fill all the really important offices with reasonable, pro-constitution, pro-market people, because that's what his faction has on offer.

One more reason that I'll voting for Trump again. (I would have been much happier voting for Rand Paul if the GOP had nominated him, but you know the saying: never let the perfect become the enemy of the good enough.)

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Andy G's avatar

As usual Richard writes interesting stuff here with interesting theses, but continues his false mantra that “the right” in toto is only interested in populism and the superficial - even as he claims/acknowledges that it is largely the *same* coalition as the one that existed before Trump.

Unsurprisingly, he rarely, if ever, does the same indictment of the left. Despite correctly being against “woke”, Richard doesn’t tar all on the left with the brush of woke, but when it comes to the right, he finds it perfectly acceptable to tar all on the right with the brush of the populist MAGA crowd. [In fairness, he doesn’t do this all the time, merely a large majority, but when he does it he usually states it as authoritative and definite and true in the aggregate].

For example there is now no doubt whatsoever that open anti-semitism and active support of and sympathy for terrorists are a big part of the left coalition, yet he does not tar all on the left as anti-semites and terrorist sympathizers, he does not call the Democrats the party of anti-semitism and terrorist sympathizers. But he’s happy to repeatedly state that the right is now completely stupid populists. 🙄

I don’t claim to have read all of Richard’s pieces. If he has ever explained why he has the “broad brush” double-standard across his left vs right critiques, I’ve not seen it. If someone else has, could they please post the link in response?

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