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Sometimes simple comments say broad things for trends. In a group chat for a mixed group someone posted the Biden energy guy who likes stealing bags. I said if the Dems ran on their current platform in 2008 they would get 10% of the vote. I got a reply “truth”.
I can go back in time and pull up Joe Biden being very anti-gay marriage. Would it be fair to say if Joe Biden went in a coma in 2008 and woke up in 2022 he would be one of the most ardent Maga extremists? And a bunch of Republicans just voted for gay marriage.
The question I’m asking is it fair to say the left made a giant leap in roughly 15 years and the extremists today are just normal people not that long ago. I know this is meme. But is this factual?
The meme is not true. The people eg protesting outside drag shows would not have been moderate democrats or swing voters 15 years ago, although some of them were probably socially conservative blue doggers(a different thing than moderate democrats). I know many of them personally and the ones who were politically active in 2010 were mostly tea party republicans.
Now there’s plenty of people that journalists now banned from twitter call right wing extremists who were swing voters or moderate democrats in 2010 and got left behind by progressives. But that’s just journalists now banned from twitter using words wrong, which is not a new problem.
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