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Don’t be mean to the Fiscal Conservative. Their alarm has gone off four years early.

Just like clockwork, this mythical beast only wakes up to a Democrat President.

George Evans-Jones
4 min readAug 10, 2020

When science, politics, and economics converge, there are few more powerful forces in nature than the awakening affect a Democrat president has on the Fiscal Conservative.

These guys have taken some well deserved time off recently, but the country is now in need of its very best brains, so it’s a good job they’re finally starting to pull their weight again. 2024 favourite Nikki Haley appears to be getting the message nice and early; it looks like someone has a worm to catch.

You see, with a Republican in the White House, these fiscal conservatives take the opportunity to sign off for a few years. Play a few rounds of golf, hit up the country club, make some coin off the stock market. It’s a pretty nice gig if you can get it, and these great guys are lucky enough to get it every eight years.

Except, they’re about to get their hibernation cut short. Rude!

That’s because wherever you look, Biden is leading in the polls and looks like he is on course to secure a fairly comfortable victory. According to the FiveThirtyEight average, Biden’s lead in eleven swing states is still…

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George Evans-Jones
George Evans-Jones

Written by George Evans-Jones

Writing mostly on US politics from across the pond. Occasionally detour into sports/sport performance, and UK politics/culture.

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