I don't know that this is true. It's more that Trump is someone who voters impose their preferences on. So he himself appears to be whatever they want him to be. But the party is not less radical. It's more. It just has a standard bearer who lots of voters place their ideas on.
I don't know that this is true. It's more that Trump is someone who voters impose their preferences on. So he himself appears to be whatever they want him to be. But the party is not less radical. It's more. It just has a standard bearer who lots of voters place their ideas on.
It's more radical in the sense that Trump is more willing to break democracy and institutional norms, but Trump isn't coded as particularly radical in terms of *policies*.
"Deporting US Citizens" - never mentioned in the campaign
"Appointing judges to overturn Roe v Wade" - ...followed by loud, repeated denunciations of a national abortion ban and a promise to keep abortion a state issue.
"Abandoning Ukraine" - not particularly radical according to voters, and not salient.
"Corporate tax cuts" - Not terrible policy, actually. The previous rate was too high.
"Muslim ban" - Not mentioned in the campaign this time, and was reasonably popular back when it was mentioned.
He codes as socially moderate because of his own womanizing and his lack of religiosity (you rarely see him mention LGB people, and his stances on trans people are popular), and the public is outright hostile to immigration at this point, so all the hardcore anti-immigrant stuff isn't particularly considered radical.
Corporate tax cuts are horrible policy!! It was started in the Reagan admin & his asinine trickle down economics & the middle class has been gutted ever since. This country thrived & grew the middle class when corporate & wealthy tax rates were 50% or higher, & we didnтАЩt have these massive monopolies with a chokehold on all of us. NO, no more tax cuts for the wealthy, increasing the tax rate on them is hugely popular except among the 900 or so of those super wealthy. Now we have corruption in govt equal to Russia.
If you actually learned economics (I have a degree in it) instead of spouting talking points from Robert Reich, you'd know that corporate taxes (much like tariffs!) typically get passed down to consumers, and the median American is making more money and enjoys a higher standard of living (even after adjusting for inflation!) than ever.
I don't know that this is true. It's more that Trump is someone who voters impose their preferences on. So he himself appears to be whatever they want him to be. But the party is not less radical. It's more. It just has a standard bearer who lots of voters place their ideas on.
It's more radical in the sense that Trump is more willing to break democracy and institutional norms, but Trump isn't coded as particularly radical in terms of *policies*.
Deporting US Citizens? Corporate tax cuts? Appointing judges to overturn Roe v Wade? Remember the Muslim ban? Abandoning Ukraine?
It's not as if his policy objectives have been 'moderate'. As others have pointed out, voters believe what they want to believe about his policies.
"Deporting US Citizens" - never mentioned in the campaign
"Appointing judges to overturn Roe v Wade" - ...followed by loud, repeated denunciations of a national abortion ban and a promise to keep abortion a state issue.
"Abandoning Ukraine" - not particularly radical according to voters, and not salient.
"Corporate tax cuts" - Not terrible policy, actually. The previous rate was too high.
"Muslim ban" - Not mentioned in the campaign this time, and was reasonably popular back when it was mentioned.
He codes as socially moderate because of his own womanizing and his lack of religiosity (you rarely see him mention LGB people, and his stances on trans people are popular), and the public is outright hostile to immigration at this point, so all the hardcore anti-immigrant stuff isn't particularly considered radical.
Corporate tax cuts are horrible policy!! It was started in the Reagan admin & his asinine trickle down economics & the middle class has been gutted ever since. This country thrived & grew the middle class when corporate & wealthy tax rates were 50% or higher, & we didnтАЩt have these massive monopolies with a chokehold on all of us. NO, no more tax cuts for the wealthy, increasing the tax rate on them is hugely popular except among the 900 or so of those super wealthy. Now we have corruption in govt equal to Russia.
If you actually learned economics (I have a degree in it) instead of spouting talking points from Robert Reich, you'd know that corporate taxes (much like tariffs!) typically get passed down to consumers, and the median American is making more money and enjoys a higher standard of living (even after adjusting for inflation!) than ever.