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They don’t. They’re totally different people with different lifestyles and different morals and priorities. They just both vote for the same one of two political parties.
Right now they’re bonded by their general bigotry, but all purity movements eat themselves eventually. Once they run out of gays/immigrants/target of the day, they turn on each other over whatever differences they can find.
90%+ of “evangelical republicans” care far more about punching down at immigrants and gay/trans people than they do literally anything else. This is why so many of them go to churches that are fine with child abuse and vote for the least evangelical president ever. So these republicans get on great with any similarly hateful person just fine.
I’m kinda down with the libertarian republicans but the trouble is they’re more like unicorns these days. Seems like most of the time they want to call themselves libertarians it’s because they just don’t want to own the racist shit their party condones.
Honestly we look for communalities and one of the main ones “leave us alone” Neither the evangelical nor the survivalists look to the government for help. They see it as a necessary evil. one from a religious standpoint the other from a survival standpoint, but either way they want the government to not dictate their lives.
There are class and regional divides that usually separate these two. They would not intermingle if they can’t help it. The right is way better than the left at looking past their differences to function as one political unit, but they don’t extend that to their personal lives.
If you’re interested, the coalescing of these disparate groups into one “conservative” identity was actually a massive effort in American history throughout the 1800s and 1900s, done very strategically. There was a time when people would have laughed in your face if you told them that a Baptist family living off plantation wealth and a rum-running libertarian were going to synthesize their interests and vote for the same people
They do this crazy thing that democrats have trouble doing: they just agree to disagree and don’t talk about things they disagree on, instead they’ll talk about what they both agree on. Guns?
If their state has a referendum on pot legalization, the two groups might vote very differently. But otherwise, they’re best friends; they support the same candidates, they have the same political enemies, and they get low taxes. The libertarians might not care for the abortion thing but they just let it slide, it seems.
The two aren’t really on speaking terms, but indirectly kind of hang on to the same party affiliation. Libertarian republicans are basically non-existent now, though.
I have both of those in my extended family and they get along fine which surprises me. The evangelicals in my family say they don’t judge, God judges and they may pray for the “wayward” family members.
Libertarians only vote for Republicans on the promise of lower taxes. But there’s pretty much no one in public office that runs on a platform that fits a libertarian ideal
Jewish people have a term called “Bageling” where someone might drop hints in conversation through phrases or mannerisms that indicate to the person they are talking to they are Jewish.
People essentially do that with politics and political discussion in normal day to day life. You make a statement or two or something tangentially political “These tariffs better bring jobs back to America” If the person reciprocates, then the conversation continues, usually with more non-committal statements. If they don’t it generally ends there.
Outside of the headlines and news cycle people aren’t discussing politics on a day to day basis with people they don’t know (who generally also share the same views). So like other people have said, the Evangelical and Libertarian republicans aren’t generally interacting on a day to day basis, just like the Union and college educated progressive Democrats aren’t.
They really don’t. The American people occupy a wide political spectrum. That’s one of the reasons we’re so poorly served by being limited to a two party system.
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They don’t. They’re totally different people with different lifestyles and different morals and priorities. They just both vote for the same one of two political parties.
Right now they’re bonded by their general bigotry, but all purity movements eat themselves eventually. Once they run out of gays/immigrants/target of the day, they turn on each other over whatever differences they can find.
Both groups want lower taxes and hate the Democrats. That’s all you need for a coalition.
90%+ of “evangelical republicans” care far more about punching down at immigrants and gay/trans people than they do literally anything else. This is why so many of them go to churches that are fine with child abuse and vote for the least evangelical president ever. So these republicans get on great with any similarly hateful person just fine.
The libertarian wing of the GOP is basically dead.
Pot smoking? Lol.
Could this post get any more arrogant or superior sounding?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Or, put another way, realpolitik.
I’m kinda down with the libertarian republicans but the trouble is they’re more like unicorns these days. Seems like most of the time they want to call themselves libertarians it’s because they just don’t want to own the racist shit their party condones.
Someone you disagree with 20% of the time is 80% your friend
Anti-public health is a bridging issue for them. A lot of them went crazy, or perhaps just mask off and turned into total kooks over the COVID stuff.
Superciliously.
Honestly we look for communalities and one of the main ones “leave us alone” Neither the evangelical nor the survivalists look to the government for help. They see it as a necessary evil. one from a religious standpoint the other from a survival standpoint, but either way they want the government to not dictate their lives.
They are the same person. Just need a change of scenery!
Most of the US in both parties are for legalized weed.
One can be evangelical and a pot smoking libertarian. They’re not mutually exclusive.
There are class and regional divides that usually separate these two. They would not intermingle if they can’t help it. The right is way better than the left at looking past their differences to function as one political unit, but they don’t extend that to their personal lives.
If you’re interested, the coalescing of these disparate groups into one “conservative” identity was actually a massive effort in American history throughout the 1800s and 1900s, done very strategically. There was a time when people would have laughed in your face if you told them that a Baptist family living off plantation wealth and a rum-running libertarian were going to synthesize their interests and vote for the same people
They do this crazy thing that democrats have trouble doing: they just agree to disagree and don’t talk about things they disagree on, instead they’ll talk about what they both agree on. Guns?
If their state has a referendum on pot legalization, the two groups might vote very differently. But otherwise, they’re best friends; they support the same candidates, they have the same political enemies, and they get low taxes. The libertarians might not care for the abortion thing but they just let it slide, it seems.
The two parties in the U.S. have historically been fairly broad coalitions.
The two aren’t really on speaking terms, but indirectly kind of hang on to the same party affiliation. Libertarian republicans are basically non-existent now, though.
About the same way the labor unions guys get along with the woke college grads and globalist merchants. Poorly.
I don’t know any people that are that extreme either way. The vast majority of people are pretty normal, believe it or not
They do at my church 😂
I have both of those in my extended family and they get along fine which surprises me. The evangelicals in my family say they don’t judge, God judges and they may pray for the “wayward” family members.
Libertarians only vote for Republicans on the promise of lower taxes. But there’s pretty much no one in public office that runs on a platform that fits a libertarian ideal
They all want to own the libs.
Seriously, the Republican Party gets tons of mileage out of just mocking immigrants, people of color, trans people, poor people and Democrats.
Jewish people have a term called “Bageling” where someone might drop hints in conversation through phrases or mannerisms that indicate to the person they are talking to they are Jewish.
People essentially do that with politics and political discussion in normal day to day life. You make a statement or two or something tangentially political “These tariffs better bring jobs back to America” If the person reciprocates, then the conversation continues, usually with more non-committal statements. If they don’t it generally ends there.
Outside of the headlines and news cycle people aren’t discussing politics on a day to day basis with people they don’t know (who generally also share the same views). So like other people have said, the Evangelical and Libertarian republicans aren’t generally interacting on a day to day basis, just like the Union and college educated progressive Democrats aren’t.
They really don’t. The American people occupy a wide political spectrum. That’s one of the reasons we’re so poorly served by being limited to a two party system.