America's wealthy class is likely split between being socially liberal and economically conservative. Higher education makes their values liberal, while self-interest makes them economically conservative.

How much of what goes on behind the scenes of politics is crucial to understanding the world even though it's too obscure to make the evening news? Heritage Foundation's list of conservative judges helped Trump change the Supreme Court. There's every reason to think that this policy platform would be the launching pad for his second term, given that Trump needs a lot of help in governing since he's not a career politician. So you sound like that policeman on The Simpsons who stands in front of a cavalcade of unusual activity and says, "Nothing to see here, folks."

The notion that Trump's Republican Party is moderate is preposterous. Is the Supreme Court's decision to make the president immune from prosecution moderate or extreme? That was Trump's doing. How about the overturning of abortion rights at the federal level? How about the storming of the Capitol, and Trump's refusal to concede an election he obviously lost? Just the normal course of American politics? How about Trump's admiration of dictators? How about the Republican Party's switch from free-trade economics to isolationism and tariff wars? How about the rise of Christian nationalism in that party? I could go on and on.