Radically sincere White winger
That bit below Denmark
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I'm sure it is very hard and courageous to decry "crony capitalism" while comfortably remaining in the same party and changing little to nothing wrt ones owns econ policy positions
Ron DeSantis: "Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that? Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist republicans who propagate these crony policies. The average person is seeing that and saying, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry. What about having a competitive market? ... Young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society"
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You can lean on aesthetics etc. when you don't have to handle people being pissed about inflation, broken promises etc.
Outside of a war people are genuinely committed to you can't propagandize your way into making people not give a shit about tightening their belts etc...
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If anything the opposite happens. People start associating the relevant phrases, motifs, politicized cultural output etc. with the "bad".
This kind of thing works better when you're in the opposition or generally credited for good times.
On that note, this is why recent...
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Expect more executive orders.
Bad moves that have pissed away political capital since the presidential election aside, let's see if any of the measures to replace bureaucrats, strengthen the executive etc. dampen the blow.
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The Malfoid trend is nice and all but isn't going impact politics much at all. If it did, leftists wouldn't refuse to touch it whether or not they hate J.K.Rowling.
I doubt it will have a culturally long lasting impact either. It's not going to singlehandedly change what...
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People develop feelings in the context of friendship all of the time and it certainly goes both ways. Used to be a very common and one of the most wholesome ways for people to get together. It was like something you could read in a romance novel but happened irl constantly...
The fact that the first poll ever where the AfD cracks 30% federally pops up on the day of German unity is an unbelievably hillarious coincidence. Certainy DOES feel more united if west is voting like the east of yesteryear.
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