Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
by Proziam on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:55PM
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Trump has changed his party affiliation five times since 1987. He was a registered democrat for many years, even going on CNN and discussing that he identifies as a Democrat. While campaigning as a Republican he said repeatedly that he didn't align with the party's platform. Then, after all that, he recently was talking about starting an entirely new party.
> Trump thinks he’s a Republican.
His own statements, both during and prior to his time as president, strongly suggest otherwise.
> When your mental model is persistently at odds with the way things work out in reality, you need to reexamine your mental model.
You're absolutely right.
Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:06PM
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> Trump thinks he’s a Republican.
Trump thinks its useful to be seen as a Republican, just as he formerly saw it advantageous to be seen as a Democrat and for a brief time (his first Presidential campaign, coincidentally also the first where the Reform Party nomination would have let him funnel federal matching funds as well as donor funds into his own businesses) as part of the Reform Party.
When your mental model is persistently at odds with the way things work out in reality, you need to reexamine your mental model.
Trump thinks he’s a Republican. A large majority of Republicans enthusiastically agree. I don’t know what you mean by “attribute” but however he got there, Trump is very definitely a Republican.
It might help to recognize that a political party in the US is not one thing. They are a shifting coalition of groups and individuals who have found a way to work together, sometimes comfortably and sometimes not, sometimes for the long term and sometimes not. The policies shift and people change continuously as each tries to get and keep power.