02-08-2024, 08:58 AM
(02-07-2024, 10:07 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Hate that term, along with DINO.
It implies that if they're not in lockstep with the party on all issues and not constantly proving themselves by refusing to make any cooperations you're "not actually one of us" you're actually "one of them".
Just a method to try to force two groups to being even more insular and anti-cooperation or risk being kicked out of the clique.
What is just amazing to me is how much that term gets thrown around by the MAGA crowd when their positions are in so much misalignment with the GOP positions pre-Trump that them saying it has no meaning. In reality, the MAGA movement has usurped the Republican party and forced out the traditional Republican values, calling those that still hold to them RINOs.
Political scientists have so many papers on this and they will be coming for decades. It's the new "Sothern Strategy" and much like it is shifting the GOP further to the right and the national Overton Window with it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
