20 years? Let’s be honest they do this at every opportunity they can and pretend they’re just a poor innocent left liberal that was forced to join rightists because “the left are too annoying these days”
I mean, on an individual level absolutely. But there’s a definite ebb and flow to the relevance of this framing within national politics. Last time it was big was the Tea Party bullshit about 15-20 years ago, and the time before that was the Clintonite Third Way and Ross Perot’s Reform party about 15 years or so before that.
20 years? Let’s be honest they do this at every opportunity they can and pretend they’re just a poor innocent left liberal that was forced to join rightists because “the left are too annoying these days”
I mean, on an individual level absolutely. But there’s a definite ebb and flow to the relevance of this framing within national politics. Last time it was big was the Tea Party bullshit about 15-20 years ago, and the time before that was the Clintonite Third Way and Ross Perot’s Reform party about 15 years or so before that.