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Transactional politics [1]
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Date: 2025-01-14
Just a thought I had while driving to work.
There have been a lot of posts, articles, and analysis about Trump that state that Trump doesn’t have an underlying set of principles. Instead, he’s a transactional politician. Every decision he makes is driven by what’s in it for him. Buying (or actually renting) his backing only occurs when he’s getting something for his trouble.
You want to “do something” about waste in government, support his candidacy with $250 million in campaign spending. As the tech moguls supported Trump, his antipathy towards cryptocurrency vanishes. (There’s also the profit he’s making on it.) Etc. The number of cases where this has happened is legion.
And so I think about a common refrain from a lot of Democrats. I keep hearing that certain groups of people who supported Trump in the last election — Hispanics, Black Men, Rural Voters — were voting against their own self interest. But isn’t voting for your self interest just a form of transactional politics?
If transaction politics is bad, isn’t bad both when the leader does it and when the followers do it?
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