For me, assholes with racist tendencies may be more significantly differentiated from racists with asshole tendencies are for you, Pre-Trump Republicans had their problems, but G W Bush and D J Trump are not the same political species, maybe not even the same genus.
Christie may be a bridge between pre and post, but Hutchison is purely pre, and Ramaswamy decidedly post.
| Vivek is a facile, clownish, shallow, shameless, pandering demagogue, but he is exactly
| what GOP voters crave these days.
Sometimes semantics are conclusive. 'But' is the wrong conjunction. 'So' is apt.
You're thinking like a pre-Trump ur-Republican. MAGA has nothing to do with thinking.
For me, assholes with racist tendencies may be more significantly differentiated from racists with asshole tendencies are for you, Pre-Trump Republicans had their problems, but G W Bush and D J Trump are not the same political species, maybe not even the same genus.
Christie may be a bridge between pre and post, but Hutchison is purely pre, and Ramaswamy decidedly post.
For you addition. For me matrix multiplication (not commutative in general). A question of what's the goal and what's the side-effects.
Many pre-Trump Republicans have left the GOP.
The Trumpified GOP -- as MAGAs like to boast -- attracted many people who had formerly not identified or voted Republican -- or voted at all.
MAGAs crow that they killed off the old GOP and built a MAGA GOP.
Many of the politicians are just afraid of angering the Trumpified GOP base.