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He’s the result of our crappy primary system.

The UK Tories decided to copy it and wound up with Liz Truss. The Canadian Conservatives tried something similar and wound up with obscurity.

People are flagging you but seriously, if you pay attention to state and level GOP politics, the legislative priority of all things is... Banning drag queens? And books that mention anything besides white/cis/straight experiences? Railing against ESG funds? These are the most pressing issues the base think needs to be addressed?

I think these GOP efforts inflict real harm, but the top-priotity obsession against trans people is so strange to me, especially when trans people are a tiny fraction of the whole population.

What happened to being the party of free speech?

I am serious, if someone honestly can explain the GOPs enacted platform outside of being "anti-woke" I'd be interested to hear it. I don't see a vision, I see the mob culture war politics they claim they fighting.

I expected my post to be a roller coaster.

But seriously, taking an HN viewpoint, the GOP has stopped looking at any data other than polls a long time ago (and has only accelerated that trend over time). And real harm is being done to people in the meanwhile.

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