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Dani Tofte's avatar

I tend to believe Vance's assertion that he was anti-Trump then red-pilled into liking him, because that's what happened to me and so many others. I was horrified when Trump won in 2016 and thought his claim that the media lied was just because he didn't like what they said about him. Then Trump led for four years and he was good, and it became evident that the media are just a bunch of talking heads reading teleprompters with scripts from on high. He won my vote when he banned DEI from federal government. Then Biden reversed every positive accomplishment of Trump's.

I now identify as a MAGA liberal. Trump is a liberal, a Democrat his entire life until he took over the Republican party. He was the only president to come into office pro gay marriage because he didn't look to polls for his stance. As long as he can control the Right from swapping out Left ideology with their own, I welcome his hammer to our woke institutions.

Of course, our national debt might be the end of us no matter who wins. We seem to be past the point of being able to pay it back. We either default and create a global meltdown, or we pay the piper with hyper inflation. The silver lining will be that no one will care about being woke; we'll be too worried about survival.

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Colin Wright's avatar

I didn't identify much with the "simmering in the postliberal brew" of ideas you outlined in postliberalism, which probably makes sense because I consider myself to be quite squarely liberal. But I definitely agree with Vance's goal of dismantling the bureaucracy and de-institutionalizing the Left in essentially every place receiving federal funding. However, I don't want to re-institutionalize the Right, unless that just means institutionalizing colorblind meritocracy and a culture of free speech.

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