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The mentality of people who just hate and drag anyone who identifies dem, in this day and age, drives me crazy. Because "democrat" is just not a political identity. The only core philosophy behind being a democrat is belief in evidence-based policy, fairness and justice at least some of the time, and that government should fundamentally be allowed to do the work of governance. Any political view that fits in that framework can make it under the tent.
To be distinguished from the modern conservative wing, who think government should be butchered and sold off to the highest bidder, that fairness and justice are part of the woke mind virus, and evidence is conspiracy.
That description could fit any political party. They all believe that their policies are "evidence based" and they're fighting for fairness and justice, and that "government should fundamentally be allowed to do the work of governance". The disagreements are over what qualifies as evidence, what fairness and justice is, and what "the work of governance" should be. For example, Republicans think that the role of government should be much smaller than the Green Party does.
I see no evidence of the Republican party Brent interested in governing in good faith. They're just a bunch of thugs, terrorists and Nazis.
No one wants a more intrusive and powerful government than the modern Republicans.
They just don't want it involved in any form of governance. They want it to be used to murder trans people, enforce evangelical christian dogma, and make them rich. They want it to look like Hungary or Russia.
The Republican Party has shown in so many ways that it does not believe in evidence-based policy. When a GOP politician talks about a faith-based policy, that’s because it’s not supported by evidence. It’s like that joke: “if alternative medicine worked, it would be called ‘medicine’”.
In your example that the GOP believes the government should be small, you’re buying their bad-faith boilerplate excuse for getting rid of things they don’t like. If they didn’t use this excuse, they’d have to give specific reasons why a program should be gutted or eliminated, and probably provide evidence as well. So they just say “small government”. But when there’s something they want, they happily expand the government and run up the deficit.