• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Just once I would like to have a Republican senator running on an ultra-conservative platform get elected and the reveal they are secretly an ultra-progressive.

    • rivan@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      You’re talking about Teddy Roosevelt. I know you meant a modern example, but that was very much Teddy Roosevelt.

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      3 months ago

      I really don’t understand what’s happened to him, he seemed like a decent guy when Biden got elected and now he’s insanely MAGA all of a sudden? I thought he had morals and decency, guess I thought wrong. Almost no politician has those.

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        3 months ago

        I really think it’s the stroke, it was pretty immediately after that when he went full MAGAt

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        3 months ago

        Nothing. He’s always been a bullyish jerk. The national media never covered it. And his opponent was objectively worse.

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    3 months ago

    Why is it always these types of guys that are DINOs? The allure of the racist redneck lifestyle is too enticing?

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      3 months ago

      Fetterman is an interesting case. He was pretty strongly Democratic until his stroke, then he seems to have made a pretty sharp turn to what we have now.