{"id":21140,"date":"2024-10-09T01:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21140"},"modified":"2024-10-09T01:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:39:29","slug":"pale-pastel-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/10\/09\/pale-pastel-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Pastel Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The acquiesence of Leftist and Democratic Party positions into the Republican Parrty has come not from the \u201cGOPe\u201d, \u201cCon Inc.\u201d, or the the \u201cSurrender Caucus\u201d, but the very people who wished to purge them in order to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/09\/23\/the-new-right-is-the-old-left\/\">fight<\/a>\u201d. From <em>choosing <\/em>to <em>echo<\/em> previous <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sladesr\/status\/1841466965363171530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/T7FEm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">platforms<\/a> to outright talking like a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRealBeliveau\/status\/1841233694742192142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ebqZH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dealer<\/a>, there is increasing agreement on Leftwing positions like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoahCRothman\/status\/1841301816434123160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obamacare<\/a> should be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/TTTrr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>saved<\/em><\/a> or that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoahCRothman\/status\/1841286328773734794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> should be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/REj9k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>subsidized<\/em><\/a>. If there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1841314932870058217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political choice<\/a> when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Ol5Qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power<\/a>, it isn\u2019t about <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1841529310672519538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a question of policy<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/MHYG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obvious<\/a> can no longer be denied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">JD Vance may have had the best debate performance in the past 25 years against a man who increasingly looked out of place. But our side is way too focused on the performance and less so on the concerning number of nearly indistinguishable policy differences between both men. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dR3s7apnax\">pic.twitter.com\/dR3s7apnax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1841529310672519538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/gfile\/slog-and-sacrifice-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Right<\/a> is just the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/RZXBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Left<\/a> who were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dXnMp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mugged by Wokeness<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The differences are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoahCRothman\/status\/1841309360867201130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not stark bold colors<\/a>, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/PYrwP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pale pastels<\/a> that used to define what a <em>squish<\/em> was on the Right. It is the choice between a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonStrice\/status\/1841877325920547101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>woke<\/em> Leviathan<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/eoREL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>trad<\/em> Leviathan<\/a>. \u00a0 It is a very epitome of a false dilemma fallacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21141\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pastel-color-sticks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pastel-color-sticks.jpg 400w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pastel-color-sticks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We forgoed a choice to embrace the echo.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pale Pastel Politics\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The acquiescence of Leftist and Democratic Party positions into the Republican Party has come not from the 'GOPe', 'Con Inc.', or the the 'Surrender Caucus', but the very people who wished to purge them in order to 'fight'.  From choosing to echo previous Democratic Party platforms to outright talking like a New Dealer, there is increasing agreement on Leftwing positions like Obamacare should be saved or that solar panels should be subsidized.  If there is a political choice when it comes to power, it isn't about a question of policy. The obvious can no longer be denied.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pastel-color-sticks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The acquiesence of Leftist and Democratic Party positions into the Republican Parrty has come not from the \u201cGOPe\u201d, \u201cCon Inc.\u201d, or the the \u201cSurrender Caucus\u201d, but the very people who wished to purge them in order to \u201cfight\u201d. From choosing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/10\/09\/pale-pastel-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[65,70,22,33,24],"class_list":["post-21140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-facepalm","tag-fail","tag-gop","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21142,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21140\/revisions\/21142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}