I refuse to call anyone a "moderate" that can't immediately answer the question "What was the civil war about?" correctly.
*Or says shit like this
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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Biden is a moderate
Nikki Haley is a right wing loon
Biden is a moderate?
Barack Obama was a succesful politician, for being a moderate conservative...
Definitely Monday for the writer of that headline.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But in today’s Republican Party, where a large majority of voters believe that Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, it requires a certain kind of political courage.
Larry Hogan signed bills eliminating mandatory minimums for drug convictions and requiring a 40 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
But when democracy itself is at risk of collapse, it makes sense to think of “moderate” in a somewhat different fashion: referring not to stances on the issues of the day, but to a more fundamental view on the proper relationship between conservatives and democratic institutions.
Ziblatt shows how conservative parties (meaning those factions representing the interests of the elite classes and others hostile to social change) worked to accommodate their supporters to democracy.
And she couldn’t wage a frontal assault on Trump’s authoritarian tendencies in a party where large majorities believe the 2020 election was stolen; that’s why Chris Christie flamed out.
So Haley tried to thread a very difficult needle: campaigning as a true conservative on policy, while adopting a sunny affect and distancing herself from Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
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I think the big thing is that she isn't Trump. And that basically makes her the sole hope for any non-maga republican
She is the Hillary Clinton of the bloods.