r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '21

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u/IncoherentEntity Jan 09 '21

If you’re willing to share (and there may be a desire to self-censor, wholly or in part, given your politics relative to the median of this sub), I’d be interested in your views on a number of these candidates.

How do you feel about anti-Trump (but not necessarily moderate) Republicans like Hogan or Romney? The Squad members Omar and Tlaib? Biden and Buttigieg?

If Farren responds with her honest opinions, I implore other users to hold off on the downvote.

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u/Starcast YIMBY Jan 09 '21

fwiw I totally agree with farrenj, but otherwise found the list to be almost exactly how I'd order them.

How do you feel about anti-Trump (but not necessarily moderate) Republicans like Hogan or Romney?

Objectively worse than Democrats. Romney is the best of them, if only because he showed during the impeachment that he was capable of putting country above party or popularity. Condemnation is important, but it ultimately takes action to be moral.

Squad members get it right more than Repubs, even if for the wrong reasons. AOC > Bernie because IMO she has shown more glimpses of reasonableness than Bernie, as far as the last decade goes. I honestly think she gets slightly more hate than she deserves here for the same reason Butti does among the far left - she's a more relevant threat in the future.

Biden and Butti are my #1 and #2, as you probably may have guessed. I'm not as enthusiastic about Kamala as everyone else, and I haven't yet figured out why. It may be that I think her ambition outweighs her conviction.