It's critical to watch and learn from Trump's political Judo.
The normal conservative reaction would be to shutdown programs that funded student loan forgiveness, or to battle it out over whether some lousy cancer NGO was effective.
Trump, instead, simply redirects the loan forgiveness to something conservatives want: immigration enforcement. The graduates don't give a shit whether they work at an NGO or ICE--they just want their debt yolk taken off. Liberals become enraged and politically ineffective because now they're on the bad side of two issues instead of just one.
This type of politics is especially hard for Libertarians to understand, but it's necessary to fight this way when you are outgunned, and that's what we are until our media and institutions are fixed/replaced.
Im liberatrian and understand it very well. The libertarians that are so strict in what they want to see are rhe reason the movement fails. Successive approximation is how change is done. Libertarians with intractable ideology and the mentality of all or nothing are losers. Thats my problem with rand paul. Incremental change is what trump is doing and we have more of a libertarian mindset in this country right now than weve ever had.
It's critical to watch and learn from Trump's political Judo.
The normal conservative reaction would be to shutdown programs that funded student loan forgiveness, or to battle it out over whether some lousy cancer NGO was effective.
Trump, instead, simply redirects the loan forgiveness to something conservatives want: immigration enforcement. The graduates don't give a shit whether they work at an NGO or ICE--they just want their debt yolk taken off. Liberals become enraged and politically ineffective because now they're on the bad side of two issues instead of just one.
This type of politics is especially hard for Libertarians to understand, but it's necessary to fight this way when you are outgunned, and that's what we are until our media and institutions are fixed/replaced.
Im liberatrian and understand it very well. The libertarians that are so strict in what they want to see are rhe reason the movement fails. Successive approximation is how change is done. Libertarians with intractable ideology and the mentality of all or nothing are losers. Thats my problem with rand paul. Incremental change is what trump is doing and we have more of a libertarian mindset in this country right now than weve ever had.