But it won’t stop people from repeating “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line” over and over.
An unpopular war with Iran and Trump’s expansion of executive power — two issues that grate on an anti-establishment slice of the American right — could fuel the Libertarian Party’s message of nonintervention and limited centralized authority. . .
“Some libertarians supported him thinking he was an anti-war candidate. And that’s where he’s lost them,” Brown said. “But my view and a lot of libertarians’ view is that separation of powers is very important. This president has seized way too much power in this imperial presidency.”
I’ve been saying for years that if Democrats actually want to appeal to “moderate Republicans” they should forget about the neocon wing and focus on the libertarian wing. They should be criticizing the Iran War more strongly (instead of just criticizing how it’s been conducted) and should call for things like repealing the Patriot Act (especially with Trump holding the executive and benefitting from expanded powers). But somehow it’s always the authoritarian weirdos like Zionists and transphobes who they try to appease instead.
Personally, I think they should focus on mobilizing the base instead of trying to appeal to the right. But if you are gonna appeal to the right, you should be appealing to people who have some disagreements with the GOP and sometimes break with it instead of the people who are getting exactly what they want from it.
But it won’t stop people from repeating “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line” over and over.
I’ve been saying for years that if Democrats actually want to appeal to “moderate Republicans” they should forget about the neocon wing and focus on the libertarian wing. They should be criticizing the Iran War more strongly (instead of just criticizing how it’s been conducted) and should call for things like repealing the Patriot Act (especially with Trump holding the executive and benefitting from expanded powers). But somehow it’s always the authoritarian weirdos like Zionists and transphobes who they try to appease instead.
Personally, I think they should focus on mobilizing the base instead of trying to appeal to the right. But if you are gonna appeal to the right, you should be appealing to people who have some disagreements with the GOP and sometimes break with it instead of the people who are getting exactly what they want from it.