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"Trump is not economically conservative" - That's his entire appeal! The only part that's unpopular is the tariffs, and that only because of the price increases.

"he’s not less hawkish" - He didn't talk about Canada and Greenland during the campaign, so at the time of the election, he was seen as less hawkish as compared to the Dems, who according to median voters got the US "involved in 2 wars" (Ukraine and Gaza).

"he is hugely religious-coded" - Lol, no. Not even most of his own supporters actually believe he's religious. The evangelicals vote for him because "evangelical" is a political identity, not a religious one, and they have no God separate from MAGA (this is not the case for, say, mainline Protestants, Catholics, or even Mormons, even if many of those voted for him as well). He hardly ever talks about LGB people, and loudly repudiated the extremist pro-lifers when he refused to support a national abortion ban and vowed to leave abortion to the states. Everyone, including his own supporters, knows he's a womanizer. In fact, that actually helps him - nobody believes that he'll ban something that he personally benefited from.

May 12
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