01-21-2023, 12:58 PM
It's a question I've been asking myself for ages now (since Ron Paul '88 supposedly exposed libertarian-leaning Republicans as contrasted to non-libertarian-leaning Republicans). These days it seems to be more a case of MAGA-Republicans contrasted against non-MAGA-Republicans. There's been a lot of polling showing this divide, but I'll refer to the Vanderbilt poll in December 2022.
But MAGA is not the only divide, there's abortion as well (it seems the stumbling block has to do with when abortion should be legal/illegal). I supposed there have always been "shades of gray" about abortion, but the Republican platform from Roe to Dobbs was always black and white; whereas shades of gray have creeped in since Dobbs due to the political realities of getting elected.
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