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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally hilarious when people think schools like Stanford, Duke, UChicago, etc. are rooted in right-wing politics...

Use this website to look up various schools: https://www.crowdpac.com/games/lookup/universities?name=Stanford%20University The ranking goes from 10L to 10C with 10L being exclusively liberal professors and vice versa. Stanford is ranked a 7.6L- as in highly liberal. It may be 234/446 out of the schools analyzed, but that's just testament to the reality that most colleges and universities are heavily liberal.[/quote]

uhh hoover institution is at stanford. it's the most high profile conservative university affiliated think tank.

stanford is very conservative/liberterian.

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You really need to take a class or read a book about political ideologies and the difference between contemporary "right-wing" politics--Trump, the Tea Party, etc.--and conservatism. They are very different.

The Hoover Institution is actually a good example. They support Trump's deregulation and[b] tax cuts [/b]because those are classically fiscally conservative moves; they hate the tariffs because they are diametrically opposed to free trade. The guys at Hoover are conservatives; they aren't "right wing" in the sense OP is talking about.

https://www.hoover.org/research/donald-trumps-trade-travesty

Oh and libertarians despite much of what Trump is doing because it involves increasing the size and authority of the federal government. [/quote]

They support the tax cuts even with its impact on the deficit? 
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They likely would tell you the right thing to do is to offset tax cuts by reducing government spending through cutting the size of the federal government. Generally they want less government involvement in everyday life (and certainly in the economy), and cutting taxes and minimizing the size of the government are two big ways of doing that, in their view.[/quote]

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