# Barr: "I'll vote for Trump in '24, though I just wrote a book showing why no one should." Explain?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barr-ill-vote-for-trump-in-24-though-i-just-wrote-a-book-showing-why-no-one-should-explain/960699/13 "2022-03-09T14:18:22Z")

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> [@Roger\_That](#):
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> What’s the thinking here? Bad as he is, any Democrat is worse?

This is why I started this thread. Look at the chart referenced in the OP – it’s not that far down from the top. You don’t have to read the article.

> [@How Republicans See the Political Spectrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-republicans-see-the-political-spectrum/960680/30):
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> Columnist George WIll recently noted that Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance (whose book, incidentally, I really liked), who is now running for the U.S. Senate nomination in Ohio, stated two weeks before the invasion that he “(didn’t) really care what happens in Ukraine”. He suddenly reversed that position. Likely, after some underpaid staffer informed Vance that there are 43,000 Ukrainian-Americans in Ohio.

The article referred to:

> **[A History on What Russia Expected, How It's Backfired, and What Putin Likely...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/8/2084505/-A-History-on-What-Russia-Expected-How-It-s-Backfired-and-What-Putin-Likely-Missed?utm_campaign=trending)**
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> The present war in Ukraine has offered many surprises, much of which has come to the frustration of Russia’s President as his attempt to play “Hitler” continues to be bogged down in the mud. It’s clear now that things have gone wrong for the...

Here’s the chart itself:

[https://www.google.com/search?q="how+republicans+see+the+political+spectrum"&rlz=1C1EJFC\_enUS908US908&sxsrf=APq-WBvdqlRMI-6-67nrZmse3tA1VEk9xg:1646835572131&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikwJ7KnLn2AhX0lokEHWmfBREQ\_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=750&dpr=1.25#imgrc=XcgyExkvTQI69M](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22how+republicans+see+the+political+spectrum%22&rlz=1C1EJFC_enUS908US908&sxsrf=APq-WBvdqlRMI-6-67nrZmse3tA1VEk9xg:1646835572131&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikwJ7KnLn2AhX0lokEHWmfBREQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=750&dpr=1.25#imgrc=XcgyExkvTQI69M)

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