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Re:The group chats that changed America by iszomer on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:48AM (#43831288)
> If there were firmer ideological underpining to the right's platform, I'd be willing to listen.

But there isn't and will never be imo, as human behavior cannot be hard-categorized into easy to understand boxes. Just as a light example, look at the former D's that were appointed and confirmed by the current administration. Would you say they have accepted a level of the Right's conformity over their original/core beliefs?

Re:The group chats that changed America by ethbr1 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:21AM (#43833892)
Using Bessent and Navarro as examples, they both have ideological underpinings to their approaches.

Unfortunately (for the world) they're also contradictory.

And the administration doesn't seem capable of enunciating a coherent decision as to which guides its policy -- instead it's last-man-in-the-room-ism.

Re:The group chats that changed America by iszomer on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:25PM (#43838198)
I think if it really was the case that Trump's 2nd term appointees had been all right-leaning, the narrative that he is a _fascist dictator_ would have held more weight. But it hasn't as a sort of compromise or willingness to meet closer to the center.

Whereas inversely, a true-to-life dictator XJP whom there is no perceived dissent within his congress or at minimum ever widely publicized or disseminated. Maybe this is the ideological stability you are looking for?