Right to repair is such a wild departure from their usual. It doesn't fit with grifting personal wealth, diverting tax income to billionaires, privatizing services, executing protestors, or similar activities. Makes me wonder what fucked-up horror is hidden behind this.
Politically, trying to exempt farm equipment from the clean air act to try to bias the rural vote to a more republican side of the ballot.
It allows farmers to roll coal if they say it's needed for a repair. So environmental destruction is the angle here.
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The party that is against everything and for nothing needs a "win" to campaign on for their rural voters. Throw JD under the bus at home and hope the weakening dollar makes up for it increased exports.
If the companies could sue you because you went to another store and bought something cheaper, they would, for sure
How can the alignment of Right to Repair and Republicans not be obvious?
The self-made John Galt who "makes do" without government assistance by repairing all of his things himself, especially his old American muscle car that "they don't make like they used to anymore" is a fantasy that resonates so strongly with the right wing that the FBI might as well just use it to screen for domestic terrorists.
Republicans stopped being libertarian when they started supporting Trump.
Republicans were a coalition of anticommunists. This resulted in neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, and libertarians coming together. When the Soviet Union fell the coalition started to fall apart leading to fewer libertarians supporting the Republican party since the threat was less. The neoconservatives and paleoconservatives remained in the Republican party.
Republicans were never libertarian in any meaningful sense. There's a reason libertarians have their own party.
You're right. I should have said, Republicans stopped pretending to support libertarian values when they started supporting Trump. At least they used to pretend they were for libertarian values.
The reasons libertarians have their own party is so they can be blamed for in effect voting for Trump when they did not vote for Trump. It is a form of self-flagellation to ensure no matter which sides when, it is your fault to the other side.
When confronted with the possibility of a second term of Trump's uniquely destructive anti-leadership and proven track record of being highly corrosive to individual liberty, if you couldn't swallow your pride and vote actually-conservative then that's on you. I myself had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election. That changed in 2020.