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<blockquote data-quote="Welsh Exile" data-source="post: 1038635" data-attributes="member: 82670"><p>They are in a very interesting place. On the one hand, the only reason why America has bucked the trend and voted in a so called progressive like Biden is because Trump was so toxic but then, on the other hand, Trump won more votes in the election just gone than he did in 2016 and some might argue if it wasn't for Covid he would've won a second term.</p><p></p><p>So do they double down, as you say, or do they drift more towards the center and risk alienating the new voter base that Trump has gathered together in the last 5 years or so.</p><p></p><p>It seems that the global political trend now isn't about economics, or even policy, but culture. It's what Brexit and Trump were good at exploiting and it's what Boris and Cummings also exploited.</p><p></p><p>I actually worry that if the GOP appoint the right leader/**** and Biden has a tricky term dealing with Covid and what have you then they could be right back to square one again. And, let's be honest, if they did they woukd just be following the trend that the majority of the western world is falling into. In that I mean, a rejection of the left as a whole or, at the very least, the "extreme" left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Welsh Exile, post: 1038635, member: 82670"] They are in a very interesting place. On the one hand, the only reason why America has bucked the trend and voted in a so called progressive like Biden is because Trump was so toxic but then, on the other hand, Trump won more votes in the election just gone than he did in 2016 and some might argue if it wasn’t for Covid he would’ve won a second term. So do they double down, as you say, or do they drift more towards the center and risk alienating the new voter base that Trump has gathered together in the last 5 years or so. It seems that the global political trend now isn’t about economics, or even policy, but culture. It’s what Brexit and Trump were good at exploiting and it’s what Boris and Cummings also exploited. I actually worry that if the GOP appoint the right leader/**** and Biden has a tricky term dealing with Covid and what have you then they could be right back to square one again. And, let’s be honest, if they did they woukd just be following the trend that the majority of the western world is falling into. In that I mean, a rejection of the left as a whole or, at the very least, the “extreme” left. [/QUOTE]
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