heh, reminds me of that political cartoon of a Boomer passing his younger self on the road, with the 60s car covered in bumper stickers for peace, free speech, and not trusting big pharma while the 2020s car says "hate speech has no right to life," "nuke Russia," "no jab no job," und so weiter

we have to remember how arbitrary US politics really is--there's no rational reason for Randroids and flat-Earth God-botherers to vote together, no more than there's any reason for Blacks, gays, and Irish-Americans to vote for the other party; that's part of why Trumpism managed to succeed (at least) twice, they couldn't understand what a political reshuffle would even look like, as though 1994's politics would endure forever; that's why TDS hit so many people so hard, and why people cling to SJWism/whatever you want to call it even as it's quite visibly receding