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My (US) congressman says and does unnecessarily hard-right things, agreeing with Trump almost desperately, sometimes almost saying the dog-whistle GOP positions out loud. He is also low on the GOP totem pole.
Naturally.
Low-status members of social groups infer unwritten group norms, then bang their drum longer, harder, and faster than anyone else. They one-up each other in hyper-conformity. High-status members don't need to do this.
He looks like an ideologue but he's really just a climber.
