Trump was one vote way from repealing the ACA, and kicked trans people out of the military. Plus claiming GOP has "moved left" requires you to ignore stuff like Republican judges nullifying the Voting Rights Act and being about to rule much of the modern regulatory state illegal
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1472258604082384912
One reason government-by-judiciary will be scarily effective is the tendency of pundits/reporters not to cite policy changes announced by the judiciary as belonging to the party that has engaged in a decades-long quest to install a judiciary that would achieve these policy goals
Seems like Trump's judges being about to vote to overrule a very popular 50-year-old precedent so states can create abortion criminalization regimes more barbaric than the ones that existed pre-Roe is pretty relevant here
There's a chicken-and-egg problem here, but one big reason that Bush and Trump were both viewed by the public as more moderate than they were is that the media has chosen to focus more on isolated moderate rhetoric than the usual red meat AND focused more on words than actions
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