Gandhi, Mahatma
1869–1948

Gandhi's framework centered nonviolence (ahimsa), anti-imperialism, religious pluralism (he was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist for being too pluralistic), civil disobedience as moral practice, voluntary simplicity, and defense of the poor against industrial capitalism. Paxton's entire political mode — religious-majoritarian framing, combative rhetoric, prosecution of religious minorities, alignment with industrial extraction — lands on the opposite side of nearly every Gandhi value. Talarico's anti-corruption, religious pluralism, care-for-poor, immigration-as-moral-question framework, and stated commitment to civility even with opponents tracks closely with Gandhian political ethics. He loses points on his more conventional foreign-policy posture (Gandhi was a pacifist) and on his pro-business framing (Gandhi was deeply skeptical of industrial scale). The 1 for Paxton is one of the lowest single scores in the table — Gandhi's framework simply has no overlap with Paxton's.