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Always amazes me how right leaning this site's populace seems to be

contrarian-leaning

It amazes you that the popular viewpoint in America is also found on HN?

Yes because I would not expect HN populace to be the same distribution as the general US. Just like how I would find it strange if medical professionals had more anti-vaxx than I expected.

Right-leaning is giving them too much credit. It's just self-leaning and, like many other political groups, Trump just said the transparently false stuff that he needed to in order to appeal to them.

The dumbest and/or most self-interested of many demographics, it turns out, were happy to be tricked!

Unlikely for a forum have a single opinion.

Hence “popular”

Asking HN for political analysis is like asking Politico for an in depth analysis on ML capabilities.

There are a handful of users on HN who have domain experience or knowledge in policymaking due to professional adjacencies (IP Law, High Finance, Space/Defense Tech VC, etc) but get drowned out.

I agree completely. Try to mention that on this site though and you get replies such as "we're not the same as other social media sites!", or some variant of the community here being the smartest in the room.

At tech? Maybe. At everything else? Not so much.

the kind of domain expertise you describe results in a different kind of imperialist psychosis. you should look to analysis coming from communists, Brazil, China, Iran, Palestine, Yemen, etc. These groups have a much more clear-eyed view of US policy.

I think it’s fair to say you need another kind of domain experience to explain Trump.

He did order the commander of the IRGC to be taken out during his last term while simultaneously pushing the Abraham accords with several Sunni nations. The "peace through strength" concept is only believable when it is clear that strength will be used - call it Chekhov's gun of international relations.

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