salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have been moving & driving all day, but what in the name of Sam Hill has been happening here. 330
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is doubtlessly somewhat tangential to whatever the topic here was, but it is probably less helpful than we usually think to speak of politicians “being” one political philosophy or another. 030
jben1990.bsky.social @jben1990.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The 2nd paragraph isn't really true, though. 000
jben1990.bsky.social @jben1990.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I mean, I think the first paragraph is defensible-5 of those 6 elections were won by Republicans (Nixon twice, Reagan twice and HW Bush.) And Carter was actually much more moderate & much less liberal than popular memory has it. 000
