President Donald Trump said Friday during remarks in Florida that the United States would take over Cuba “almost immediately,” suggesting an aircraft carrier could be positioned offshore after the conflict in Iran.
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While the president’s comments appeared partly joking, they followed concrete policy action in the form of broadened sanctions.
Collapsing people’s multidimensional political beliefs onto a single line hides a lot of the data. As long as “conservative” and “liberal” group membership directs votes, the meaning of the terms are actively warped and shifted.