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The wider Trump administration is extremely anti-free-market. They're very explicit about it. The Republican party is nothing like it used to be.

• sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
  The Republican party only persists as a name. The Trump party has long subsumed it.
  • bloppe 1y ago
    That's always been a feature of the 2-party system. I mean, the Democrats were once the party of southern white supremacists. We don't really get new parties, but the parties we have change over time as the coalitions within them rearrange. I think a multi-party parliamentary system would be better at finding middle ground, but it's silly to say that the two-party system keeps politics "fixed".
    • sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
      True, the make-up and priorities of both Republicans and Democrats have changed a few times over the years. I would say that in this case, it's a party aligning to an individual far more than it has ever been in the past. Racist Southern Democrats didn't become Republicans because they were enamored with a Republican leader, they changed parties because they found themselves misaligned with the Democratic Party's pivot to civil rights. I wholeheartedly agree that a parliamentary system would serve the US better.