It’s an interesting and well articulated perspective.
I wonder, is there room for people who don’t think there is a “great replacement” effort but want to halt mass migration, don’t believe that there are dozens of genders, want to keep biological males out of women’s bathrooms/sports and think the whole movement is a net negative for society but also believe that adults can do what they want to their bodies in isolation, want to keep perverse books out of children’s libraries and believe “CRT” is a faulty framework that causes division rather than progress?
Those are my beliefs. I don’t believe they need to be framed in the way you have. I would say that there is an element of the Trump party that is incapable of nuanced understanding so they probably do frame it the way you do, unfortunately.
I don’t think my beliefs are extreme and it’s a shame we have to frame them in extreme terms. This is why we can’t come together as a country.
Without us getting stuck in the weeds on each topic you mentioned, I’ll say that I think you are asking a very timely and relevant question (assuming I’m understanding you correctly): Is there a place for a more traditional conservative in today’s Republican Party?
I don’t say this to sound dramatic— but I notice some definite parallels between the time we’re living in now, and the decade just prior to the Civil War. At that time, the Whig Party was going through the same thing the GOP is now; namely, they were being hijacked by extremist elements. That schism ultimately led to the demise of the Whig Party altogether.
There are a lot of good conservative Americans in this country, and I would implore them to take their party back from the Freedom Caucus/MAGA elements before it’s too late.
Remember: studies of other fascist regimes or insurgencies have shown that it’s typically only a small-ish percentage of the population thats truly gung -ho and fervent about the ideology. The rest are some mix of people who don’t really care since it won’t affect them directly, or believe that the end results will be good for the country overall, or brush off the concerns as being overblown (see the post directly above this one).
Lol, he has a completely unhinged take, just like Joy Reid. If any of that were true, why are the blacks in Chicago and NYC coming out to protest these things? Those aren't Evangelical whites. That is why Biden is the worst rated president ever, and these people coming out for Trump in historic shifts in the electorate.
Protest which things? Don’t confuse disliking Biden or opposing some of his policies with what I’m talking about, and don’t mistake me as saying that every Trump voter is voting for him for that reason.
I think there are certainly some Americans who are blindly ignorant of what I’m talking about; there are widely used media outlets like FOX and Newsmax whose main job seems to be to normalize and rationalize this type of rhetoric and policy positions. Likewis, Americans are famously one-issue voters (the economy), and don't put much thought into the specifics of it. “Do I feel like the economy was better back then than it is now” is about as deep as they get. Why the economy was that way, or why it is the way it is now, and what it’s doing and why, don’t really factor in much for a lot of Americans.
But make no mistake as to what MAGA is, at its core. It’s a fascist-oriented push to “take America back” for whites and Christians, as they used to be the main voice in our society and government, and they feel that immigrants, queer people, and POC have encroached on that. It’s the old “if their piece of the pie is getting bigger, then mine must be getting smaller” mentality.
That's fine but she should word it a lot better then. Regardless that I disagree with her overall premise for the most part, she's paid to articulate points correctly and seems like this was a fail.
Joy Reid is terrible and MSNBC is trash, so that doesn’t surprise me. I mean, I’m liberal AF and I won’t watch that shit.
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