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He also shares a very large portion of the core beliefs of the old Republican party. In the 1960s he would've likely been considered center right.
It's crazy that endorsing medicare and social support structures makes him a Democrat now.
It's not crazy, it's intentional. Poor education combined with the lack of social structure creates a voting population ripe with anger over the shitty system and looking to blame someone instead of learn why it's like that.
Conservative media is specially made to take uneducated and rage blind voters and churn out Republican candidates who pretty much only hold office because of manufactured spite towards democrats.
Yes, informed voters are less likely to vote against their own interests.
Yeah he’s no democrat anymore. Since he hit his head he’s been sliding to the republicans
This is a ridiculous viewpoint, the Democrats are a center right party. Here in Canada they would be considered conservative.
He supports healthcare and workers' rights, he's a Democrat.
Or at this point the Republicans are so cracked that straight up "if he doesn't support Project 2025, he's a Democrat"
He's referring to:
Notably:
He basically broadly cast Palestinians as "because Hamas is among them, they earned their situation.
So nominally Democrat, but he's been called "Republican's favorite Democrat" and has been espousing some more right wing sentiment this year particularly.
Brain damage from a stroke is well known to possibly cause major shifts in personality and beliefs too
Dude went from calling himself a progressive at every opportunity pre-stroke, to going on a rant about why he has no idea why anyone would think he was a progressive and how angry it makes him
Being confused about things and responding with belligerence is also normal following things like strokes or the normal effects of aging.
All this shit is logical, except where we pretend they're normal and the same as elected.
No he literally had a stroke, had brain damage, and stopped being a progressive. I'm not talking figuratively here or being like "hurr durr non-progressives are brain damaged", the stroke figuratively turned him into a different person, he became significantly more conservative.
Which really is a shitty situation all around, it's really unfortunate.
I don't pay attention to american individual politicians as much but maybe he'd be a red Tory? Morneau was a grit cabinet minister and he's solidly centre right, LPC tends to be neolib
Honestly for his region in Pennsylvania, he's to the left still.