• ZeroCool@feddit.chOP
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, if you want to be a career republican politician in the south the standard strategy appears to be pandering to the yokels in the base in the most frustratingly transparent manner possible.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      And if it’s transparent it makes you even more popular because you just claim that it’s all lies from your political opponents

      It’s not like your base is going to fact check you, especially with all the anti-education talking points they’ve been spouting