On Stephen Macaulay’s ‘What About Priorities at Home?’ -- The average Maga voter *thinks* they chose priorities at home over disastrous military excursions abroad. They did not, of course. https://www.cpr.org/2025/12/30/trump-vetoes-arkansas-river-valley-conduit-funding-bill/. Now the question becomes, does getting smacked in the head with this reality materially change in anything in such a voter? I'm not optimistic. – Joe Wiesner/via Substack

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