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I feel like maybe he hasn’t and we just prescribed things about him that were never real. He’s got a few progressive type positions (lgbt, legal weed), but beyond that I’m not sure he was ever the progressive we thought he was. We just cloaked him in things and he never disabused us of it until now where the rubber meets the road. I’m greatly disappointed, but the lesson for me is to look closer at people rather than “thinking” their beliefs align with my values.
He was a very vocal critic of Trump and a very vocal supporter of progressive causes and bills until he was elected. He was vocal about climate change, for instance.
We had no reason to believe otherwise until it was too late.
He definitely had this no BS progressive streak he amplified ahead of his election. He had a massive stroke, then turned increasingly conservative -- seems to track. Alas, the cause doesn't matter. He revealed his true colors.
Seems we were double-crossed yet again akin to Sinema.
It's almost like brain damage makes people more reactionary. I wonder if there's a lesson there.
I'd genuinely be interested in having a neuroscientist analyze his brain via mri / eeg.
An interesting study of self-identifying conservatives and liberals revealed conservatives had larger amygdalae and shrunken anterior cingulate cortices. This translated to greater fear and disgust responses and reduced empathy and pattern recognition.
He was also the progressive choice in the primary. His opponent was a centrist party hack.