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Mr. Morden
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« on: April 03, 2017, 03:11:38 PM »

Also, Trump aside, there aren't very many elected officials from the second group, probably because there isn't as much money behind the second set of causes.

I think much of that is that is simply a consequence of the demographics of people who tend to go into politics.  "Conventional" Republican orthodoxy of the "Type 1" variety described in the OP is held by a group of people who tend to have higher incomes and higher education levels.  "Trump-ism" is more popular among those who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder.  Hence, "Type 1" is more common among the class of people who actually run for office.

So yeah, there "isn't as much money" in the second group, but that's not just the money of donors, but also the money of the politicians themselves.
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2017, 04:09:58 PM »

Peter Beinart has written some great pieces in the past year and a half or so on the split between traditional Republican orthodoxy and “Trump-ism”.  His latest one is probably the best, and it’s about how white rural voters have become more secular over the last few decades, but that rather than this causing the culture wars to diminish, they’re now simply fought over different issues:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/

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But Beinart has some other good pieces on Trump-ism and “American exceptionalism”, and how Trump’s Jacksonian wing of the GOP has a much dimmer view of the Muslim world than the “neocon” foreign policy wing, and how that connects Trump’s views on foreign policy to his views on immigration, etc.:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/donald-trumps-formula-for-success-in-foreign-policy/417456/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/do-republicans-still-think-america-is-exceptional/492356/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-trump-wants-to-make-america-exceptional-again/515406/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/for-trump-we-have-a-lot-of-killers-isnt-a-criticism/515748/

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