https://twitter.com/abc/status/1201609688921583619
This stuff kinda proves that most American have no real ideological underpinnings because most of this movement seems to have been from Warren to Buttigieg.
This is why your continual rush to hard left has never made sense to me.
Some of us knew this when we reached age 30 or so.
When Bush picked Quayle in 1988, the big deal was "Quayle is a conservative." As one major GOP consultant said, "His ideology is okay, but it only counts for () much."
Folks use the banners without context, and the reality is that Donald Trump is the most liberal Republican elected President since Teddy Roosevelt...from a party of conned conservatives that keep kowtowing to his insanity.
Plainly inexplicable in any sort reasonable understanding of political ideology as they are quite oppositional to one another in many respects.
The part that has me chuckling is that people think this lack of reason is somehow unique only to Trump voters.
This isn't even a 'both sides' issue, it's an "almost everyone" issue.
If Hillary Clinton had done what Trump has done with Ukraine, two things would be completely different right now:
1) the GOP would be losing their bowels over it
2) the Democrats would be insisting she "had committed no actual crime"
I'm not gonna pass judgement on what posters here would do because I've not seen (m)any of us beholden to any particular politician. Trump is a unique scumbag, but let's not pretend the responses of the parties to Hillary would not be the polar opposite of right now.
It only makes sense if you accept that American politics is not about ideology but simply identity signifiers and seeming like you are voting for the most smart one (even if what they're selling is horse manure that will undoubtedly hurt your material conditions).
American politics has NEVER been about ideology in terms of the names. You vote for Person X and hope that he or she is internally consistent somehow. Look at how often pro-lifers have been voting for the GOP and come up empty.