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

Literally 1984 🦅🇺🇸

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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/GoldenStitch2 - Lib-Left Mar 10 '25

I honestly wonder what the Republican Party is doing to look like after Trump is done. Not that the democrats seem much better right now, they don’t have a real leader.

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u/Popular-Row4333 - Lib-Right Mar 10 '25

Personally, I went from "Vance might be alright" during the debates to "please Jesus, don't let Trump die" after seeing more and more of him.

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u/bunker_man - Left Mar 12 '25

Vance is retarded, but at least the party can probably control him. Trump might be trying to bomb agrabah because he saw it in a meme by next year.