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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

What’s the difference between a moderate Republican and a moderate Democrat, besides abortion? I’m not asking that rhetorically - I’m talking about someone like Mitt Romney when he was the Republican governor of very blue Massachusetts.

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qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

(He was also against gay marriage, but that’s no longer politically relevant.)

I think it very much is politically relevant. Who would such a person appoint to the supreme court, if given the opportunity?

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- ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gay marriage was politically relevant then - that’s one reason I didn’t vote for him. But even then gay marriage opponents were losing the fight, and since then they have been thoroughly defeated. By 2020 even Donald Trump was speaking out in favor of gay rights.
  
  Anyway, the point I wanted to make was that a present-day governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney would oppose abortion but not gay marriage.
  
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