What is Reddit's opinion of Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats?

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It's hard to tell how much of this is cross pollination from the political leaders.

The way the conservative movement works is this: frequently, a Republican leader will define some policy or belief as "conservative." In some cases, this belief may be philosophically coherent with historical conservative beliefs, but it doesn't have to be: think Trump tariffs here as the simplest example.

Once that leader defines conservatism in that way, the conservative voters follow suit. Because conservative thought leaders have defined "protecting the integrity of our elections" as a conservative value -- i.e. enforcing all sorts of laws that make it harder to vote -- one could very reasonably argue that conservative voters only believe this because the leaders of the conservative movement have told them it was so.

This is in contrast to Democratic voters, who tend to be much more focused on specific policy than on ideology, which makes their views less vulnerable to that sort of malleability. A great book on this topic can be found here.

It did apply back then. You are an absolute moron lester. All I can do is suggest to you intro level reading so you aren't such an ignorant person in the future:

> https://www.amazon.com/Asymmetric-Politics-Ideological-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0190626607

It *is* a campaign tactic. Democrats, on balance, prefer politicians with an orientation towards compromise. See: https://www.amazon.ca/Asymmetric-Politics-Ideological-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0190626607

>Did I say "offensive behavior"? Did I even allude to it? I don't think so.

Don't be obtuse. I suppose purity tests are welcoming behavior to you then? Unless you're just hanging onto my choice of words?

>Diverse in what sense? Ideologically? I'm not quite sure that's true. I certainly wouldn't take a statement like that at face value - it deserves investigating.

Demographics which favor the democratic party: women, asians, blacks, hispanics, LGBTQ, jews, atheists. Such different backgrounds produces different ideologies and issues that they care about.

Further reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Asymmetric-Politics-Ideological-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0190626607

>You know how you can tell when someone is trying to seem smarter than they are?

Hey, I'm not the guy who misused tautology and came up with this nonsense:

>Tautologies tend to be pretty well known, but they're not exactly illuminating.

>Republicans, whether elected or voters or redditors, support other Republicans regardless of policy. And they're against anything from any Democrat regardless of the substance or merit.

Democrats do that too. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html. For example, Democratic male voters became pro-choice after the party's leadership became pro-choice, not the other way around (chapter 9).

>You won't find anyone who's trying to overturn settled supreme court cases like roe-v-wade.

No supreme court case is ever actually "settled" anything can be overturned with 5 votes.

>But there's Democrats who support small government initives, gun rights, lower taxes and regulations, etc.

Can you give me an example of that?

>There's also a wide variety of views in the Republican party, but they're not consistent over time. They change year over year or even day to day depending on who they're supporting, not what policy they're supporting. The Republican party shouldn't be defined by being the conservative party, they're defining themselves by being against the Democrats.

No. The Republican party actually does have a consistent conservative ideology. https://www.amazon.com/Asymmetric-Politics-Ideological-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0190626607

>The politicians and voters support not a consistent conservative ideology, but being against democratic policy and being against Democrats as people. Look at one of the major reasons that so many Republicans wanted to get this tax bill passed - to get a win this year, so Trump and the Congressional leadership could say they accomplished anything.

But haven't Republicans and Conservatives always liked tax cuts?

>If you have strong, consistent, political beliefs, you'll find a place in the Democratic party. You might not always get your way, but that's what compromise looks like. If you just want to put party first, then the Republicans are a perfect fit. You'll undoubtedly get some "wins", as long as you don't care what the actual policy is.

All the consistent liberals actually do vote for the Democratic party and all the consistent conservatives actually do vote for the Republican party. These parties actually do vary along a liberal-conservative spectrum. http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/section-1-growing-ideological-consistency/. Edit: and if you just go by DW nominate scores in Congress, the Democrats have become consistently liberal and the Republicans have become consistently conservative since the 80s. (Source: https://www.amazon.com/Solutions-Political-Polarization-America-Nathaniel-ebook/dp/B00VAOVOVY, chapter 2.) The study from the Pew Research center I cited earlier indicates that the same thing is true for voters. the liberal-conservative spectrum hypothesis fits the data that we have on both voters and politicians better than your hypothesis.