Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: September 17, 2019, 12:27:43 PM » |
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It's true that Candidate Trump was a cypher (or even presented himself as a relative wet) on a lot of "classic" social and economic issues that President Trump has turned out to be perfectly happy to (even if only for transactional reasons) deliver on for the hard right. However, the way he talked about immigration and race relations on the campaign trail was so far beyond anything we'd seen at a nationwide level for at least half a century, and so shocking at the time (even though we're used to it now), that saying that he campaigned as "less extreme" than he's been governing overall feels somehow emotionally or poetically untrue.
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