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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
Nah, you're just a fool taking your tiny internet experience and extrapolating to the entire Republican base. Attitudes have barely changed if you look at surveys, and the surveys are of the entire Republican base.
I might be woefully out of touch with the right wing internet (lol that you read it and double lol you extrapolate it) but you're woefully out of touch with reality, math, reasoning and the real world.
The republican base has never been on board with the economic agenda. Surveys show that. Surveys have shown that.
The most likely people to hold the WH from that party in the future are Trump, DeSantis, Hawley, and Cotton. All authoritarians.
The most obvious reason this is happening is that education has long been correlated with libertarianism. Educated voters are less and less republican every year. This leaves behind the less educated base, who have always preferred authoritarianism.
Used to be that GOP leadership picked an R candidate and they ran and that was that. Not anymore. State parties are headed by absolute morons. The people in power are conspiratorial. People like Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are all but purged. Justin Amash left. Trump said to throw Massie out of the party. Reason magazine said libertarians have no home in either party. But I guess those last two don’t count since they happened on the internet.
Look, yeah, rn it’s still mostly hunky-dory Mitchism and WSJ GOPing. But if you can’t see the writing on the wall with libertarians leaving the party, political violence, and constant talk of “woke capital”, well, okay. I guess we’ll see what happens this decade.