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Originally Posted by Adder
They exist, they just don't matter in elections.
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Except they do. Trump won by a razor thin margin. Without a sizable number of principled conservatives deciding to hold their noses and vote for him as the lesser of two evils, he would not be President.
I live in a purple state that went for Trump. I couldn’t hope to guess at the number of moderate conservatives who pulled the lever for Trump using the legitimate rationale (if you’re a conservative) that as fucked up as he was, he was closer to a conservative than Hillary.
There was also a belief among conservatives who voted for Trump that Hillary was a stealth progressive. I never understood this, as Clintonism is anything but progressive (it’s moderate, triangulating, etc.). But I heard that critique a lot. My guess is, it accrued from her past advocacy for health care reform similar to single payer.
