By Doug Ahler and David Broockman
Washington Post
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking at a Dec. 12 town hall meeting in the Convocation Center on the University of South Carolina. (Richard Shiro/AP)
But this conventional wisdom misses something important: Trump meets the textbook definition of an ideological moderate.
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“And like most voters — but unlike most party politicians — his positions don’t consistently hew to a familiar left-right philosophy.”
Most party politicians west of Bulgaria consistently hew to a specific Humanist version of leftism, regardless of their party affiliation. So does Trump.
Any article that starts out presuming there is an actual ‘right’ in the West anywhere except the fringe is already living in a fantasy land.