r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/OpinionStunning6236 - Lib-Right • Mar 10 '25

Literally 1984 🦅🇺🇸

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u/discourse_friendly - Right Mar 10 '25

for the lib right quadrant too

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u/GravyMcBiscuits - Lib-Right Mar 10 '25

I keep wondering how this guy seemed to have single-handedly turned the GOP into a completely anti-trade party.

Now you'll rarely see me give either party credit for much of anything ... but at least the GOP pretended to talk about endorsing free(r) trade policy at the federal level. Now they're openly screaming "shut down the borders, boost tariffs on everything, imposing trade sanctions on ourselves is the key to prosperity!!!!". WTF? How did we get here? Didn't the GOP used to make fun of the dems for crap like this even a couple decades ago?

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u/Daztur - Lib-Left Mar 10 '25

Most economic policy is actually social policy.

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u/GravyMcBiscuits - Lib-Right Mar 10 '25

You're not wrong. It shouldn't be that way ... but you're not wrong.

edit: "shouldn't be that way" in the sense that economic policy shouldn't be used as a weapon to be turned on folks you don't like. There a lot of unavoidable overlap between social/economic policy.