Exact(1)
His challenge is selling economic pragmatism to ideological primary voters.
Similar(59)
-Matthew Yglesias notes Republicans have faced more ideological motivated primary challenges than Democrats.
For both parties, one of the driving forces pushing candidates to extremes is the ideological pressure of primary electorates.
Louis Althusser also wrote about schools being the primary Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) in charge of evening out creases in the social fabric and developing an upright citizenry.
It signals their progressive credentials to a Canadian electorate long-conditioned to believe that the primary ideological cleavage in political life is that the Left spends money and the Right does not, which is very important in a party system with two leftish parties against a single conservative opponent.
The right-wing bubble makes it harder to elect Republican presidents by enforcing an ideological purity in primaries that weakens candidates in general elections.
Candidates usually take sharply ideological positions during primaries, to woo the die-hard activists who vote in them, before tacking back to the centre as the general election nears.
Some people do not hesitate to make pathetic excuses for people like Omar Mateen and others of his sadistic ilk for engaging in human atrocities, rationalizing the dispositions of such mentally unhinged madmen as they use the cause of ideological differences as the primary reason for such behavior.
Candidates often move to the ideological edges to win a primary, because that's where the primary voters are, but the frenzied efforts of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are particularly hard to watch.
Gone would be the ideological purity tests of primaries, which more and more punish the Republican concerned with global warming or the Democrat wrestling with eye-popping budget deficits.
Cruz is a long shot to win the nomination, but he is a canny politician with enough of a base of support to act as an ideological enforcer during the primaries.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com