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bookerdana I wouldn't call him extreme right. What appears to be "right" is simply the void created by Democrats and he is filling it. Or maybe better said, the Americans abandoned by Democrats. As Obama said it, "elections have consequences" (and you no longer count).
My assessment of Trump 2024 is best explained by the people surrounding him: Vance, Musk, Kennedy, Gabbard, Burgum, Johnson, and another 2 or 3 dozen. A very different crowd from the one that mostly reluctantly supported him when he was elected in 2008 and who caved to Democrat intimidation for 4 years.
Trump is mostly a businessman who knows how to get complex things done, neither a right winger nor an Old Boy Republican. You don't build a hotel empire without being a very competent businessman. Protestant pragmatist kind of fits my definition of Trump. And Washington DC can't stand that.
I was trying to understand the connection between old-school Republicans and Harris, Chaney and daughter, now a Bush, and a few more. It finally hit me: The Military Industrial complex! I have to imagine the pairing of Trump and Musk scaring the crap out of politicians and friends of politicians getting rich with military contracts. Kind of like with foreign aid. And doesn't Cheney and the DOD go all the way back to Bush-1?