The liberal doxology

Let’s hand the microphone to Kevin Drum over at jabberwocking.com:

“There are lots of people who think Donald Trump is a boor* but plan to vote for him anyway. I'm not talking here about the dead-enders who worship Trump, but the center-right voters who really don't like him but will hold their noses and mark their ballot for him even so. Why? Because the alternative is voting for a Democrat.

“You may wonder what's so scary about that. The answer is pretty simple: they don't like Democratic policies. They think we let in too many illegal immigrants. They think we spend too much money and run up the deficit. They think we're too soft on criminals. They think we're too willing to raise taxes in order to spend it on the poor. They think we're sexual libertines. They think we care more about saving a few fish than we do about jobs. They think we're pro-abortion. They think we want religion gone from public life. They think we've been hijacked by identity politics. They think we want to take away their guns.
“And guess what? Put aside the uncharitable wording of these complaints and they're basically right about all this stuff."

Actually, the deficits grow under Republican administrations and shrink under Democratic administrations. And I don't want to take away all the guns, I just want sensible gun control. And I'm not pro-abortion, I just want the nanny state out of the reproductive decisions of citizens. But whatever.
There’s more at the link, including charts. * this is coy Drumspeak for: he is a pathologically self-centered authoritarian liar who cares nothing at all for democracy or the rule of law, and who -- apart from his lifetime of general criminality -- participated for months in an organized effort to overthrow the results of a national election, including violently interrupting the peaceful transfer of power for the first time the nation's history.

https://jabberwocking.com/its-all-about-policy/