• potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    It’s more complicated than the mainstream narrative would let on. In the US the Democrats are a center right party, they’re more or less in agreement with what the previous republican administrations wanted, with the exception of a few gender related issues (LGBT, women’s rights, abortion). The new GOP is just much more extreme than usual. The Dems see this and are actively moving further right to try and get the leftover scraps of the extremists.

    For example, most of the infrastructure that trump is using to round up brown people is stuff that was built under biden/obama. Deep down both parties want this, they’re just using it to bash each other as a matter of tradition.

    The left is actually quite ideologically unified at this point, especially compared to historical trends. It’s better to think of the US as in a 3 party system where you have extreme right, center right, and a broad coalition of leftists, but all the infrastructure is only setup to allow two parties.