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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Republican party went from being an evangelical Christian, tax-cut whackoparty into...

A vague blank slate that people can project their hopes onto with no accountability whatsoever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, yeah. It'll be interesting to see if that means that they'll still pursue those legislative ideals (just without a platform or unifying cry or whatever), or if they're happy to push the responsibility down to the states.

My opinion is that the Republicans see the writing on the wall: why make unpopular decisions federally when you can make popular decisions at the state-level? They can maintain a christofascist state in their home ground without having to project onto states that'll ignore their legislation anyway.