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Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by rayiner on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:01PM (#49404295)
That's like saying Clinton mind-controlled a bunch of Dukakis voters into suddenly wanting to cut the size of government. It's an underlying political realignment and reshuffling of voters.
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Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by overfeed on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:41PM (#49405254)
There's no reshuffling of voters; that's what I find amazing. The same conservative voters who claimed "Taxation is oppression", "small government", or "no forever wars" are (or vote for) MAGA, even though Trump actions are a repudiation of their old claimed values.
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Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by rayiner on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:25PM (#49405852)
You’re confusing party rhetoric with actual voter ideology. Look at the Senate map from 2006 and tell me there hasn’t been a reshuffling: www.electionresources.org/us/maps/senators.php?election=2006

U.S. elections are a dynamic equilibrium where each party is trying to get to 51%. I live in Annapolis and the WASPs with boats viscerally hate Trump. But they were a core Romney ‘12 demographic.

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