Bannon indicted on 2 counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoena from J

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nobody should be above the law, whether you agree or disagree with their politics, Bannon deserved this, and I support abolishing executive privilege and pardoning the whistleblowers because the public needs to know what is going on in government.

The aggregation of power in the hands of the executive branch is magnet for people to lust after and steal. The history of the world has shown that absolutely power corrupts absolutely and we will pay a heavy price for the empowerment of the government over the people, the central authority over the states and the Presidency over the other branches.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Not that it matters, but the democrats lost me today. Guess I’m voting R or blank in 2022 and 2024.

Well, that's a very stupid reason to not vote Democratic.  People should just be able to ignore subpoenas, eh?

I suspect you were never going to vote Democratic anyway.  As such, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for misrepresenting yourself as a swing voter.

I don’t know what gave you the idea I’m pro law and order. I’m anti-institution.

Anyhow I could still vote for Biden if he makes clear that this was the DOJ going rogue.

Regardless, I voted for Kerry and Obama. So I don’t need to “prove” I’m a swing voter.

I wonder why on a forum full of such smart people and in presence of ample discussion on the problematic nature of engaging in this kind of political reductionism where everything is reduced to a simple linear construct, that people continue to do so here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Not that it matters, but the democrats lost me today. Guess I’m voting R or blank in 2022 and 2024.

Well, that's a very stupid reason to not vote Democratic.  People should just be able to ignore subpoenas, eh?

I suspect you were never going to vote Democratic anyway.  As such, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for misrepresenting yourself as a swing voter.

I don’t know what gave you the idea I’m pro law and order. I’m anti-institution.

Anyhow I could still vote for Biden if he makes clear that this was the DOJ going rogue.

Regardless, I voted for Kerry and Obama. So I don’t need to “prove” I’m a swing voter.

I wonder why on a forum full of such smart people and in presence of ample discussion on the problematic nature of engaging in this kind of political reductionism where everything is reduced to a simple linear construct, that people continue to do so here.

BG-NY voted for Kerry and Obama and has showed his vote is not locked in for either party over the course of this year. That's all the proof he needs to be credibly considered a swing voter in the present.

That is precisely my point, there is this image of the "swing voter" as some neoliberal suburbanite whereas everyone who has some nationalist inclinations must be an extreme right winger.

All four quadrants on the political matrix converge on the center. Though I would argue that the political matrix fails to capture under aspects of political expression such as an axis dealing with establishment versus populism. It is necessarily hard to display a 3-D construct in a 2-D space, obviously.