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Patiod t1_j4j2w28 wrote

The abortion thing might play well with evangelicals, but it runs contrary to the "leave me the fuck alone" core approach of the 2A, anti tax, anti regulation old timey Republicans I know

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whjoyjr t1_j4lhk4x wrote

But that is not who they are playing to. They count on those votes as a given. The Party sold their soul to the religious bigots during the era of St. Ronnie.

And before anyone comes at me, I was a Republican back in that day. Only after getting out of the suburban DC bubble did I start to see that things were not as what was being sold by the Republicans.

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