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1. I hope I can convince @soledadobrien to reassess her comments to @SarahLongwell25 who is an amazing human being, & a fellow 4 Star General fighting on the front lines in The Army of the Decent. As Sarah rightly points out, she meant "thematically conservative" & what that https://twitter.com/SarahLongwell25/status/1296808803862745089
2. specifically means, and is documented in a MUST READ political science book Asymmetric Politics by my brilliant @NiskanenCenter colleague @MattGrossmann is that for decades the GOP has emphasized "faith, family, and patriotism" in their language. Beyond that, the GOP actually
3. "talks" to voters in a completely different way than Democrats do- using an ideological pitch whereas Democrats use a group-based, policy-based pitch. And I hope Matt will be Ok w a little copy write infringement for the greater good here. You can see from these tables/graphs
4. As you can see in this analysis of debates, R candidates are much more likely to draw on ideological, principles, and yes, American imagery for their answers than are Democrats, who like to talk about explicit policy and certain groups.
5. And Reps waaaaay about "liberty" and "patriot" Democrats in speeches. This data ends in 2000. Would be great to see it get updated. Sarah was asserting a fact about how Rs electioneer differently than Ds & noting how the Biden team is trying to hijack some of those techniques
There are many "assemtries" between the 2 partie- they underlie why hyperpartisanship and polarization are worse (read, worse not exclusive to) the GOP. But also MUCH worse. Like had a whole Civil War and now Sarah is trying to murder her old party worse. https://www.amazon.com/Asymmetric-Politics-Ideological-Republicans-Democrats/dp/0190626607
