Republicans are further right than Democrats are left

Harris L Politics March 13, 2022December 15, 2022 1 Minute

It’s getting to be an extremist right-wing cult. Most of them won’t stand up to Trump, their lying bigoted leader. I thought that after he lost, they would move more to the center but instead they have become more conservative.

“The leftward movement on the Democratic side is far less dramatic than the movement to the right on the Republican side, a trend Mann & @NormOrnstein have been writing about for much of the 21st century.” https://t.co/mkUnItb17b
Asymmetric polarization: https://t.co/pCMob9N9sQ pic.twitter.com/11FUbMQ8Zr
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) September 14, 2022

Clearly false that Dems are the more ideological party. In 2022, 60% of Dems are very liberal/liberal while 83% of Republicans are conservative/very conservative. And look at the extremes! Dems also more than 2X as likely to be moderate.

GOP = more ideological purity + extremity pic.twitter.com/u8oexo2Sv5
— Samuel Perry (@profsamperry) April 29, 2022

Just a reminder that when you hear that the left has become more radical, actual cross-time measures of Congressional ideology shows the opposite. Polarization reflects a shift rightward among Republicans. https://t.co/bikyjOfHI0 pic.twitter.com/BlQAgSD7QS
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 13, 2022

a prior post on this subject

The Democratic Party is not extreme. Biden was probably the most moderate of the candidates for the 2016 Democratic nomination. New York Democrats picked a moderate for mayor. https://t.co/teg48duMoe
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 15, 2022

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Published March 13, 2022December 15, 2022

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