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Johnson's views on energy and climate are right up my ally: [https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-a-environment/4275625-johnson-brings-record-of-climate-skepticism-to-speakership/ Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership]. After all, Biden is pro-oil too, he just wants the oil produced in Venezuela and Iran. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 20:33, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

Johnson's views on energy and climate are right up my ally: [https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-a-environment/4275625-johnson-brings-record-of-climate-skepticism-to-speakership/ Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership]. After all, Biden is pro-oil too, he just wants the oil produced in Venezuela and Iran. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 20:33, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

:[EC] Left-wing ideology has always been changing, and "right-wing" is defined as whatever is to the right of the present strain of Leftism. Jeffersonian Republicans were classical liberals who supported ''laissez-faires'' free-market capitalism and free trade, yet comprised the left wing of politics because they opposed the classically conservative and "aristocratic" Federalists. Subsequent hardline Jacksonianism left-wing outlets, especially the Young America movement under [[George Nicholas Sanders]], supported free trade, the gold standard, the expansion of capitalism, and popular sovereignty. Of course, support for the gold standard changing from a left-wing position in antebellum years to right-wing in the postbellum era was due to changing circumstances: the central government was no longer dispensing gold alone, but greenbacks, and business interests once open to paper now supported a quick return to ''specie payments''.

:[EC] Left-wing ideology has always been changing, and "right-wing" is defined as whatever is to the right of the present strain of Leftism. Jeffersonian Republicans were classical liberals who supported ''laissez-faires'' free-market capitalism and free trade, yet comprised the left wing of politics because they opposed the classically conservative and "aristocratic" Federalists. Subsequent hardline Jacksonianism and its left wing, especially the Young America movement under [[George Nicholas Sanders]], supported free trade, the gold standard, the expansion of capitalism, and popular sovereignty. Of course, support for the gold standard changing from a left-wing position in antebellum years to right-wing in the postbellum era was due to changing circumstances: the central government was no longer dispensing gold alone, but greenbacks, and business interests once open to paper now supported a quick return to ''specie payments''.

:And so, the left-wing Democrats in the postbellum era were divided: some maintained the same positions regardless of changing political context (the purportedly "right-wing" August Belmont who supported ''specie'' in 1868 was previously a key figure in the radically liberal Young America movement), while others applied a consistent spirit of Jacksonianism now in support of greenbacks, particularly the Copperhead [[George H. Pendleton]] of Ohio. In [[Rutherford B. Hayes]]'s winning gubernatorial campaign, the hardcore Jacksonian candidate used populist Jacksonian rhetoric in support of greenbacks against the "Money Power" and was labeled by Republican media outlets as a radical, Communist-aligned revolutionary.

:And so, the left-wing Democrats in the postbellum era were divided: some maintained the same positions regardless of changing political context (the purportedly "right-wing" August Belmont who supported ''specie'' in 1868 was previously a key figure in the radically liberal Young America movement), while others applied a consistent spirit of Jacksonianism now in support of greenbacks, particularly the Copperhead [[George H. Pendleton]] of Ohio. In [[Rutherford B. Hayes]]'s winning gubernatorial campaign, the hardcore Jacksonian candidate used populist Jacksonian rhetoric in support of greenbacks against the "Money Power" and was labeled by Republican media outlets as a radical, Communist-aligned revolutionary.

:Machine politics also demonstrates another change in political ideology definitions: countless Northeastern "reactionaries" were once aligned with or sympathetic to liberal reform in Reconstruction and the early Gilded Age. The [[Liberal Republican Party]], to the left of the regular Grantist GOP element, were adamant supporters of ''laissez-faires'' and anti-Communist. [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.]], the poster child of archreactionary Republican politics in the [[Progressive Era]], held sympathies with liberal reformers in the 1880s!

:Machine politics also demonstrates another change in political ideology definitions: countless Northeastern "reactionaries" were once aligned with or sympathetic to liberal reform in Reconstruction and the early Gilded Age. The [[Liberal Republican Party]], to the left of the regular Grantist GOP element, were adamant supporters of ''laissez-faires'' and anti-Communist. [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.]], the poster child of archreactionary Republican politics in the [[Progressive Era]], held sympathies with liberal reformers in the 1880s!