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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/voters-think-trump-has-moved-to-the-right/?ex_cid=538fb

Before Trump moved into the White House, he took a mix of liberal and conservative positions. He was, for example, vehemently against illegal immigration but in favor of infrastructure spending. He was against gun control, but he claimed to be stronger than Hillary Clinton on LGBT rights. When you totaled up Trumps ideological score on economic and social issues from the website OnTheIssues which assigns an ideological grade to politicians statements and votes on a scale that weve converted to go from -5 (very liberal) to +5 (very conservative) he came in at +42.5. His score was closer to 0, perfectly moderate, than any incoming president of the past 40 years except George H.W. Bush.

Trumps stances led voters to believe he was relatively moderate for a Republican or at least that he was ideologically idiosyncratic. More voters viewed Trump as liberal than any incoming GOP president since at least Ronald Reagan, and fewer voters viewed him as conservative than any Republican since at least Reagan. That stood in stark contrast to Clinton, whom the clear majority of voters saw as liberal. Trumps ideological positioning relative to Clintons may have been one of the reasons he was able to pull off a slim Electoral College victory against her.

Upon entering the White House, however, Trump has taken up a primarily conservative agenda. Hes become hawkish on foreign policy, he stocked the federal courts with conservative judges, and he urged Congressional Republicans to push through a massive tax cut that was seen as mostly helping the well-to-do. He also tried to stop transgender Americans from serving in the military. The national infrastructure project seems to be going nowhere.

Therefore, its not surprising that Trumps White House policies have pushed his OnTheIssues score toward the conservative end of the spectrum. Trumps score is now a +60, compared to a +42.5 before the election. OnTheIssues now classifies him a hard-core conservative and places him just behind Reagan in the pursuit of the title of the most conservative president.

also:

Support for the new tax reform law is up to 40 percent among registered voters in YouGovs latest survey, but opposition still outruns it at 45 percent.
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It was visible upon nominating Pruitt and DeVos. I know even before, but those two should have solidified that diarrhea.
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Every poll ever shows that trump is a garbage heap of a person and has a micropenis
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I wouldn't really call holding up the lgbt flag and then nominating pence as vice pres to be a very good indicator he cares about the lgbt community.
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Tmaster148 posted...

I wouldn't really call holding up the lgbt flag and then nominating pence as vice pres to be a very good indicator he cares about the lgbt community.

Most voters wouldn't have had any idea who or what Mike Pence is. Only political junkies pay much attention to VPs.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

I wouldn't really call holding up the lgbt flag and then nominating pence as vice pres to be a very good indicator he cares about the lgbt community.

Most voters wouldn't have had any idea who or what Mike Pence is. Only political junkies pay much attention to VPs.

Even then, holding up the flag is such a weak sign of anything.

Though if there's one thing Trump did do right was his campaign. He spoke vaguely and a lot of people just made assumptions about what he was going to do.
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