". The major US political parties don't have any consistent ideology." Yes they do. You are missing the point with Milton Friedman. This is not about 'what wo

". The major US political parties don't have any consistent ideology." Yes they do. You are missing the point with Milton Friedman. This is not about 'what works and what doesn't work. This isn't about ideas or their validity. This is about populism and opinions. The 'Right' consistently, ideologically wants 'Restrained spending, balanced budgets, possibly military spending and supply-side economics, Constitutional Originalism, fairly free markets, limited social spending. The 'Left' wants deficit spending, demand side economics (i.e. stimulus cheques) etc. etc.. This is very, very consistent throughout the last many decades. Donald Trump flipped the narrative by pushing for 'free money' for people, which is something 'the Left' has been pushing for hard since the start of the pandemic, and which was consistently rebuffed by the GOP - both sides consistent with their ideology. Because Trump followers support him and don't even understand their own ideology, they think anything he says is 'Conservative' even when it's not. So commenters in Fox News are all huff and puff about 'hard working people need that money' the day Trump made the claim, even though for months, 'the Left' had been pushing that only to rebuked by Fox News readers as being 'socialism'. The plebes are often dumb, and believe whatever their populist leaders tell them, even if it's directly against their own supposed ideologies. This basically the nature of the article.