They already have good relationships with liberals, so it makes sense that they’d try to also forge relationships with conservatives given they had control of congress.
I don’t see anything controversial aside from the implicit admission of having not had or made any significant relationships with conservatives while they had always had made efforts to establish relationships with liberals.
No, that’s how every politician sees things. If you think this is only done by conservatives, you have some fundamental blind spot about things done by liberals which are explicitly designed to hurt the other team. Until you learn to understand the conservatives, you’ll forever be mystified why the partisanship in this country grows and why compromise is becoming harder and harder to attain.
I'd wager there are a lot of people who think of themselves as Conservative/Liberal due to mimicry from parents or environment who are actually fairly centrist once challenged. Combined with the fact a lot of people also aren't very engaged with politics to begin with it isn't that hard to see how a seemingly contradictory relationship could actually be quite successful
Could be why many of my conservative friends would be disgusted to go to a liberal talk, whereas many of my liberal friends would be very interested to go to a conservative one.
Apparently he liked the Industrial Workers of the World. That would disqualify anyone from the conservative label (and maybe even the liberal label too).
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