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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 05:07 PM Mar 2018

American Prospect: Conservatives"A coalition drawn together by greed & cultural resentment"

@JoyAnnReid
Inherent in this solidly packaged set of truths is the fact that performatory conservatism was so easy to kill precisely because for the vast majority of its adherents, except for a few intellectual elites, it always was performatory.





How Donald Trump Broke Conservatism
ADELE M. STAN MARCH 7, 2018
Republicans have gone along with Trump in return for tax cuts and deregulatory gifts—never mind their supposed philosophical principles.

http://prospect.org/article/how-donald-trump-broke-conservatism



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American Prospect: Conservatives"A coalition drawn together by greed & cultural resentment" (Original Post) kpete Mar 2018 OP
We have to stop calling them "Conservatives". no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #1
replace "cultural resentment" with "white supremacy." PdxSean Mar 2018 #2
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2018 #3

no_hypocrisy

(46,104 posts)
1. We have to stop calling them "Conservatives".
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 05:16 PM
Mar 2018

They don't embrace the tradition of William F. Buckley or even Barry Goldwater. They aren't really Republicans.

They are rightwing fanatics. Off the political spectrum in their extremism.

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