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post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social |
when you vote for President you are voting for a coalition rather than a person. the right understands this very well, which is why evangelicals lined up behind Trump.
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Urban Futurist Democrat
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I would argue that evangelical morals are in fact Trump's morals, it wasn't a sacrifice on their part. But the coalition imperative did give them the space to come around fully to this realization
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@morphingstyles.bsky.social
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It's honestly a little weird that former Republicans don't quite grasp that.
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Babs...all day
@babsallday.bsky.social
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yes, godammit
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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל
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And the left doesn't understand, which is why we get people who don't understand the hypocrisy of evangelicals voting a man with Trump's character
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Jeff Lazarus
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I'd go even further and say the right is weaponizing the left's failure to understand this by coalescing around the very flawed Trump while seeking to magnify Biden's much lesser flaws.
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Adam Gurri
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But Trump is also the clearest example that you are very much voting for a person as well
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Public Universal Ally
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Yeah, bad coalition, doesn't reliably represent my interests, and in fact usually pulls some nanny nanny boo boo we betrayed you but you have to vote for us bullshit
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@supastevo.bsky.social
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The right lines up behind a coalition because there's a coalition that actually represents and works toward achieving rightwing interests. There simply is no such coalition for the left in American politics. The Democrats are neither leftwing nor a coherent coalition that works towards anything.
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@smilerz.bsky.social
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That's not how swing voters think at all.
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acerbic otter is HOT (NO not like THAT)
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I'm also voting for the type of officials that president might appoint: are they gonna be buddies of his who are looking to profit, or buddies of his who actually know their stuff?
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@eggsandjakey.bsky.social
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Democrats aren’t coalition builders. They just tell their voters to keep eating shit, so they don’t have to eat more shit under Republicans.
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@ohdeerthermos.bsky.social
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I think the challenge that a lot of people have is that a bunch of us tend to collapse the coalition at a moments notice. The whole "Do Something" vibe has to be premised on not recognizing distinct groups with their own, independent, power
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Tbh I would say the stronger example of this is lining up behind Romney, which was a further ideological & sociocultural leap for most GOP Christian base than Trump is
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Jordan
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This is obviously true, but not sure about that second part. Evangelicals find him personally aspirational
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
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Fuckin’ A
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This take summed it up for me:
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