The open secret that’s been obvious to everyone paying attention is that Trump simply does not give a shit about LGBTQ issues or abortion. Every time he talks about them you can just tell, he speaks in platitudes and never goes into more detail than he has to (compare this to, say, trade, which he cares about a lot). They barely showed up in his campaign book IIRC. I think that was part of the logic of picking Pence as his VP, it was a signal to the Christian right that he’d go along with their pet issues.
In retrospect, this probably actually helped him in 2016. The majority of the public was in favor of gay marriage by 2012-13, but mainstream Republicans still had to run against it in 2016 because the religious right still felt very strongly about the issue. Trump’s refusal to care put him closer to the true “median voter” on that issue than almost any other GOP candidate. It also probably helped build the (obviously false) idea in the public’s mind that Trump was relatively moderate
@sivavakkiyar Exactly right. That comment made it really clear that he’s joining the anti-trans brigade in 2024 purely because he knows some of his fans want to hear it
Recent Supreme Court decisions also reminding that to properly understand the Trump presidency and its relationship to the Republican Party and conservative movement you’ve got to keep in mind that it’s going to keep paying out in major policy wins for a while.
Making a political cartoon – Donald Trump standing paused before a curtain with two openings, each with a framed portrait besides, one of Grover Cleveland and one of Adlai Stevenson – to send back to the 2006 APUSH DBQ, as part of a warlock’s curse
So fairly little of Donald Trump’s presidential term was totally unprecedented, a lot was the kind of stuff one President had pulled before, but it was all kinds of different stuff and different ones.
So the ultimate question is, will that include Grover Cleveland’s trick of getting elected to nonconsecutive terms, having lost an election in the interim?
“This indictment is obviously an attempt by the Democrats to use against
me the complex webs of power relations that influence the nature of
rights and consequences in a given society and that we conceptualize as a
legal system,” Trump said before quoting verbatim a passage from
political philosopher Michel Foucault that reads, “The judges of
normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the
teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the
‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the
normative is based.”
“Folks, the bourgeois, they’re no good everyone is saying it. All these workers, very handsome workers come up to me and say, ‘Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe’, and you know what, they’re right.”
“These bourgeois are very nasty people very very rude and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me everyday and says, 'Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution?’ And I gotta turn to them and say, Look the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction believe me you gotta trust me on this one.”
“The means of production, obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I’m seizing them. Landlords? They’re done for folks. Everyone told me they said, 'Comrade Trump you won’t be the vanguard of the revolution’ and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess whose laughing now?”
