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LuvNewcastle

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3. Trumpy exploits the culture wars, and that's the only
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 07:20 PM
Nov 2020

place where Republicans are competitive with Democrats. A lot of people are still pulled one way or another by hot-button issues aggravated by media. They might like Medicare For All, but they still flip when they hear about tearing down statues and defunding police. Trumpy could see how easy it was to lead his followers around by the nose harping on about immigration and such, and he was able to push through a bunch of far RW ideas in the meantime. The trick for us is to keep our promises to the members of the Biden coalition without making the social conservatives bolt. That's going to be walking a fine line, and the GOP are going to try to push us off of it at every turn.

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