"Conservative" Has Been Misappropriated
votermom: ...If you are interested in understanding where the Trump supporters are coming from...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jkex6xz
From that link, John Kluge: [Conservative:] The word seems to have become a brand that some people attach to a set of partisan policy preferences, rather than the set of underlying principles...
This is about what I expected.
Reminds me of what I always say about atheists. When they describe the God they don't believe in, I say, sure, I wouldn't believe in that kind of God, either. That "conservative" has been misappropriated hasn't changed what conservative really means. But, because of that, I usually use "Constitutionalist" now, just to be clear.
There were some other broad generalizations I couldn't agree with. "What everybody knows" usually isn't.
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