Reply To: Political alternate universe

se2015,

“True, but the category was a social liberal who believes in tax cuts and deregulation.”

Yes that’s a good point. Traditionally, Republicans have been perceived as favoring less regulation of business and more regulation of social behavior, while Democrats favored more regulation of business and less regulation of social behavior. So my imaginary world would seem to line up as regulators of everything vs de-regulators of everything. But lately Democrats have been increasingly in favor of regulating social behavior to conform with more liberal values, which has actually changed Republican talking points in some cases from preserving “the values of America” to protecting religious liberties.

So for the sake of argument, let’s say that candidate B is not really a libertarian, and would potentially curtail religious freedoms to promote liberal values. That’s how I tried to set up the scenario in my OP. Would this change your calculus at all?