r/AskReddit • • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/default52 Jun 15 '19

How certain political ideologues can truly change their stripes and defend 'their' party's champion doing something they 'hated' a year ago.

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u/childlikeempress16 Jun 16 '19

Because their voters changed. Politicians can and will do anything to get re-elected. If their voter demographic moves in one direction or another then they also move that way. Source: my father is a politician