Reaching Out to the Right

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Yeah, right. "Distilling"

Good one!!!

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think you're drinking too much of the distillate if you think your second sentence makes even a whit of sense. Centrality???

Correction: The Oligarchs get the distillate, the MAGAts get the still bottoms.

Note: "Still bottoms are the residual materials remaining in a distillation unit after the volatile components have been vaporized and condensed.".
From Perplexity AI

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Meaning it is not fringe as some would like to project.

Indeed. The desire for authoritarianism is central to MAGA.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...tarian-213533/

[Dondilion]

There is always an effort to deny centrality to the right only to run up against Reagan and Trump. And they are two-termers. Magas alone could not elect Trump.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

There is always an effort to deny centrality to the right only to run up against Reagan and Trump. And they are two-termers. Magas alone could not elect Trump.

Adolf Hitler was real popular at one point too.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

... The Democrats fielded weak candidates both times and the fact that they were women sealed their electoral fate even before any votes were cast.
....

Hillary would've almost certainly won if she wasn't so universally disliked.

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The wins occur over more than a decade of exposure to his views. Hence there is internal traction - that is within the US - regardless of how one might characterize the wins. Just to be a leading candidate is telling.

The left will not admit a single fault in themselves and by extension their policies (well maybe that they're 'too nice').

There's a vid on YT from either Yale or Harvards' main politics guy, obviously a leftie hack, where he discusses the Dems loss and why.

Not ONE mention of social policies. I believe their blindness comes from their long self-reinforced belief that if you don't agree with them you are a racist.

And, surprise! Trump gets a second term with the popular vote.

Pete

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Hillary would've almost certainly won if she wasn't so universally disliked.



The left will not admit a single fault in themselves and by extension their policies (well maybe that they're 'too nice').

There's a vid on YT from either Yale or Harvards' main politics guy, obviously a leftie hack, where he discusses the Dems loss and why.

Not ONE mention of social policies. I believe their blindness comes from their long self-reinforced belief that if you don't agree with them you are a racist.

And, surprise! Trump gets a second term with the popular vote.

Pete

OK. If you aren't hating on anyone, what's so infuriating awful about what social policies?³

[piece-itpete]

Encouraging children to get surgical meat costumes ranks pretty high up there.

Casual abortion hits many peoples buttons too.

But it's not just the radical things. Consider this thing I learned from my dad years ago: my Grandmother was English. She was complaining about all the Poles in England (they were there looking for work at that time). I joked about it to my dad and he said, She just wants England to be English.

I've thought a lot about that. It's not racist (though racism certainly exists). But many would make it so.

Pete

[Rajoo]

An anti genocide rhetoric on Israel's invasion of Gaza as opposed to a pro-Palestina and in effect anti-israel policy would have been better. America will never forget 9/11 and most see the middle east as a breeding ground for terrorism.

DJT took this a step higher branding Dems as anti-Semites which is a sure fire vote getter while Netanyahu continues to decimate Gaza without any real resistance.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Encouraging children to get surgical meat costumes ranks pretty high up there.

Casual abortion hits many peoples buttons too.

But it's not just the radical things. Consider this thing I learned from my dad years ago: my Grandmother was English. She was complaining about all the Poles in England (they were there looking for work at that time). I joked about it to my dad and he said, She just wants England to be English.

I've thought a lot about that. It's not racist (though racism certainly exists). But many would make it so.

Pete

I think insisting ethnic animosity is not racism is a distinction without a difference.

And you were cute and creative enough with the trans-bashing that I didn't get it at first. But it is pretty nasty sarcasm once one does. Hateful, really.