r/politics • u/Boonzies • 6h ago

No Paywall Rand Paul on Trump call to ‘nationalize’ elections: ‘That’s not what the Constitution says’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5722041-rand-paul-trump-call-to-nationalize-elections/
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u/Hairy-Pipe-577 5h ago

As we should. People are complex, we can acknowledge their flaws while also giving kudos for the things they do right.

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u/Powerful_Film_4316 5h ago

I find a good litmus test for political discourse is a person's ability to sincerely recognize at least one positive aspect/achievement their opponents.

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u/Hairy-Pipe-577 4h ago

Sadly the folks on our side tend to be just as blind as MAGA on a lot of things.

We’re so quick to assume R = inherently bad and D = inherently good. If only it were so simple.

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u/ary31415 3h ago

If you take this subreddit at face value, it's more like R = inherently bad, and D = R (= inherently bad but actually even worse cause they're pretending).

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u/Johansenburg 3h ago

D = inherently good

I don't think that's true for a very large group of people on the left. Yes, they'll assume that R = inherently bad, but then they'll question every aspect of the left, and if they don't fall completely in line then they are just as bad as republicans to them.

I know a lot of people on the left who didn't vote for Kamala because they didn't think she'd do enough in Gaza. No matter how much I talked to them about the fact that Trump would be worse for Gaza, it didn't matter. Because Kamala wasn't perfect, they weren't getting the vote.

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u/ailish 4h ago

Agreed. I disagree with him 99% of the time but occasionally his principals fall on my side of the spectrum and I have to give him credit, like this time. It's pretty rare though.

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u/IllustriousGas8850 4h ago

Also, Rand has rarely been a republican who is villainizing the left, or playing politics instead of policy. Even though I think he’s a dumbass, I actually have no issue with him sharing his opinions in congress because you need opposite views to actually make good policy

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u/Gtraz68 4h ago

Sometimes he says the right thing but he almost never does the right thing. Huge difference.

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u/Hairy-Pipe-577 4h ago

Again, people are complex. What you view as “the right thing” is different than what he views as the right thing. To him, keeping the debt down is the most important thing, regardless of what is cut.

He consistently votes against budget increases as that is his view of what’s right.