Shawn mentioned voting rights: Pretty much every voter on the right wants fair elections. Many think this means stopping nonexistent mass fraud, but not all.
Among those who think mass fraud exists, some doubtless find the belief convenient for identitarian reasons (their gut feeling really is that too many of the "wrong kind" of citizens voting couldn't possibly be fair, even if it's legal). Others may just trust the wrong sources. Beliefs can range from something even many Democratic voters could agree to, if it were done right, like making voter ID easily accessible and using it (Democratic activists worry this will disenfranchise the marginalized more than Democratic voters do), to full-on whackadoo.
Those on the right who don't believe mass voter fraud exist may believe this as strongly as Democrats do, but because it's not a characteristically "right wing" belief these days, they don't seem like "sincere right-wingers" on this.
Regarding LGBTQ matters, authoritarian moralizing makes non-reactionary libertarians, whether they are personally religious or not, nervous. Cathy Young is an example.
If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.
Not every issue. But I also believe that most people only have one or two 'major' issues that stick out to them. The rest gets absorbed in rhetoric.
For example, on voting rights, lots genuinely want 'fair' elections. Well, so do Democrats. Now obviously, bad people are trying to steal that and manipulate it for their own gain. But lots of the voters would go along with being told there's an 'election security' package that just included a lot of the things Democrats want.
On lgbtq rights, in general the more libertarian set of the GOP follows a similar tact to liberals on religion: they don't care what you do personally as long as it doesn't effect them. And they're not hugely happy with the idea of having religion imposed upon them. The same people who hate dry laws hate religious mandates.
There's overlap on voting rights or on gay right?
As Shawn says, it depends.
Shawn mentioned voting rights: Pretty much every voter on the right wants fair elections. Many think this means stopping nonexistent mass fraud, but not all.
Among those who think mass fraud exists, some doubtless find the belief convenient for identitarian reasons (their gut feeling really is that too many of the "wrong kind" of citizens voting couldn't possibly be fair, even if it's legal). Others may just trust the wrong sources. Beliefs can range from something even many Democratic voters could agree to, if it were done right, like making voter ID easily accessible and using it (Democratic activists worry this will disenfranchise the marginalized more than Democratic voters do), to full-on whackadoo.
Those on the right who don't believe mass voter fraud exist may believe this as strongly as Democrats do, but because it's not a characteristically "right wing" belief these days, they don't seem like "sincere right-wingers" on this.
Regarding LGBTQ matters, authoritarian moralizing makes non-reactionary libertarians, whether they are personally religious or not, nervous. Cathy Young is an example.
Both UT and WA have universal mail-in and no fraud. Why isn't that the new standard for states?
If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.
Not every issue. But I also believe that most people only have one or two 'major' issues that stick out to them. The rest gets absorbed in rhetoric.
For example, on voting rights, lots genuinely want 'fair' elections. Well, so do Democrats. Now obviously, bad people are trying to steal that and manipulate it for their own gain. But lots of the voters would go along with being told there's an 'election security' package that just included a lot of the things Democrats want.
On lgbtq rights, in general the more libertarian set of the GOP follows a similar tact to liberals on religion: they don't care what you do personally as long as it doesn't effect them. And they're not hugely happy with the idea of having religion imposed upon them. The same people who hate dry laws hate religious mandates.
Utah and WA both have universal mail-in and no corruption, so why do The GOP and the right wing oppose it on a national level?
If they believe that way on social issues, how do they stay in a party advocating for a white Christian ethnostate?