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with fringe politics.

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ROFL no. Oh, the gold standard thing is reasonably fringe, but his politics as a whole aren't. Unless, of course, you define 20% as fringe.


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and liquidation of trade agreements, threats to withdraw from the UN, banning abortion outright... just off the top of my head

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Of those, only the first one is arguably fringe. Also, he doesn't support banning abortion outright.

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From his website:
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In 40 years of medical practice, I never once considered performing an abortion, nor did I ever find abortion necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.

In Congress, I have authored legislation that seeks to define life as beginning at conception, HR 1094.

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That would ban abortion outright.... and how is withdrawing from all our trade agreements and threatening to leave the UN not fringe?