This guy probably spent 8 years defending the Bush deficits and discovered he was a fiscal hawk on January 29, 2009. Until 2016, that is, or earlier if he's lucky.
To those upvoting this speculation about the author's frame of mind, why does this add to the conversation? To my mind, it distracts from the argument by focusing on the arguer. Is this TPM?
Understanding the motivation behind irrational thinking usually requires some degree of focus on the one doing the thinking.
And just for the record, I've been a registered Republican since I turned 18, and I've also noticed this sudden surge of fiscal hawkishness in the party. This isn't liberal bas talking.
This also isn't to say the guy is necessarily being disingenuous. Just that somebody in his chain of trust is playing politics and that's causing him to form opinions that aren't entirely rational.
patio11 has said in the past that he's a Republican. And even though I think I'd disagree with him about various topics in politics and economics, I think he's got a pretty good mind.
And I would vastly prefer a site where I can talk with people like him about tech and startups, rather than the Nth echo chamber site about politics where you get a self-reinforcing feedback loop that tends to marginalize those who disagree with the majority opinion.
This guy probably spent 8 years defending the Bush deficits and discovered he was a fiscal hawk on January 29, 2009. Until 2016, that is, or earlier if he's lucky.