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rlritt's avatar

"The curious byways of American politics however have led the Right-liberals to go into political coalition with the Christian conservative populists"

I don't get this. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't see why a pro business/socially liberal person would find the Christian Right to their liking. When I think of the Christian Right I see a group who is see paternal and socially conservative.

It seems they would be absolutly the opposite of one another.

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Ellen Thomas's avatar

"Let Them Eat Tweets" is a great explanation of how this works. https://books.google.com/books/about/Let_Them_Eat_Tweets.html?id=k4iQEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description

The problem is that your pro-business/socially liberal types always thought they could humor the Nat Cons to get their votes, but keep them quiet with red meat to chew on, but they lost control.

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flagrante delicto's avatar

One of them wants to be John Wayne and the other one wants Jesus to be John Wayne. It's as simple as that.

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