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Last 7 months, let alone the last decade, have been super revealing to me as someone who has argued with conservatives for decades now.
-Small government - literally every GOP solution to any problem over the last decade has been to shove more government interference and state agents into our lives.
-Law and order - when you elect a convicted felon who has engaged in sex trafficking of children, you kinda lose the argument on LAW AND ORDER.
-Any concern expressed about child sex trafficking - see above.
-D.C. sending troops into states - I remember when conservatives would swear up and down this dem potus or that was planning on sending troops into red states to suppress....something.
-"We need 2A to protect us against government overreach" - as we see, the gun folks are the most vocal in supporting the illegal occupation by the federal government of American cities.
-American Constitution - this one is obvious and easy. The same group that has insisted 2A is sacred because the Constitution says so now insist the constitution should say whatever a president insists it says. Their own reps in congress have ceded all of their authority to the executive without so much as a fight. Online conservatives who used to argue over the constitutionality of items now insist that a sitting president can create new laws with EO's.
-Anti-war - Trump has done nothing but saber rattle and create conflict virtually all over the world, whether directly like the failed attack on Iran or indirectly in his support of Israel's genocide. Trump has been a bad actor in the Ukraine war, constantly working to create a victory for Russia. Which brings us to...
-Russia Russia Russia! - I am certainly old enough to remember when Republicans believed Russia was an enemy and didn't want to throw all of our allies under the bus to satisfy a Russian dictator.
Honestly, I kinda feel for any old school conservatives watching all this. I don't know what maga's core beliefs are, to be honest. They seem to only respond to anti white sentiment and policies designed to literally harm other Americans they've decided they don't like, which is all Americans who don't live in their specific neighborhoods.
-Small government - literally every GOP solution to any problem over the last decade has been to shove more government interference and state agents into our lives.
-Law and order - when you elect a convicted felon who has engaged in sex trafficking of children, you kinda lose the argument on LAW AND ORDER.
-Any concern expressed about child sex trafficking - see above.
-D.C. sending troops into states - I remember when conservatives would swear up and down this dem potus or that was planning on sending troops into red states to suppress....something.
-"We need 2A to protect us against government overreach" - as we see, the gun folks are the most vocal in supporting the illegal occupation by the federal government of American cities.
-American Constitution - this one is obvious and easy. The same group that has insisted 2A is sacred because the Constitution says so now insist the constitution should say whatever a president insists it says. Their own reps in congress have ceded all of their authority to the executive without so much as a fight. Online conservatives who used to argue over the constitutionality of items now insist that a sitting president can create new laws with EO's.
-Anti-war - Trump has done nothing but saber rattle and create conflict virtually all over the world, whether directly like the failed attack on Iran or indirectly in his support of Israel's genocide. Trump has been a bad actor in the Ukraine war, constantly working to create a victory for Russia. Which brings us to...
-Russia Russia Russia! - I am certainly old enough to remember when Republicans believed Russia was an enemy and didn't want to throw all of our allies under the bus to satisfy a Russian dictator.
Honestly, I kinda feel for any old school conservatives watching all this. I don't know what maga's core beliefs are, to be honest. They seem to only respond to anti white sentiment and policies designed to literally harm other Americans they've decided they don't like, which is all Americans who don't live in their specific neighborhoods.