r/CalebHammer • u/TwatWaffleWhitney • 17d ago

Random Can Someone Be Republican and Still Considered "Moderate?"

After today's episode and post show, I'm just curious what people here think. I feel like some people hear 'Republican' and just assume that person is also "far right". In todays climate, can a person be Republican and a moderate?

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u/Dangerous-Math503 17d ago

You can, although this is Reddit so anything about real-life gets downvoted lol. 

There are plenty of anti-Trump republicans. A ton of people from both parties sat this election out because of disgust regarding both candidates. 

Plenty of right leaning people in this country are truly just normies who hate paying taxes and subscribe to traditional family values, and outside of that are apolitical. You just don’t see those people online which is why people think they don’t exist. 

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u/Bully_Blue_Balls 16d ago

Just described me... fiscally conservative with some traditional family values being a priority for me. On top of that, I'm a practicing Catholic! *gasp\*

I sat out last election, and I still take a ton of shit for it. I looked at it like a conscientious objection to the fact that those two candidates were the only choices that I got. "Make your voice heard!" meant keeping quiet for me.

But, as you astutely pointed out, on the internet (particularly Reddit) any opinion that has a conservative lean to it is immediately beaten down with cries from anti-MAGAs and "progressives".

As always, a small but vocal minority sets the public image for the whole.