The believe in state’s rights, as long as they’re red states.
You always have to ask “what right specifically?”
The answer usually boils down to racism and/or slavery.
Russophobia kicks hard
Russophobia is a made up word by russia to downplay their warmongering.
“States’ rights”
Anyway, what’s up with that red dot?
They’ve always been hypocrites, and they always will be. Trump hasn’t changed this, he just knew how to manipulate it for his own personal gain.
Yeah, “limited government” has never been true. They always favoured big government when it comes to interventions in people’s personal lives, including medical decisions, marriage, and what substances you can imbibe. They’ve never cared for reducing the debt, except when Democrats were in charge of it. Law and order & justice have always been a “do as I say, not as I do” type situation. It’s that classic quote:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Trump has amped this up to 11, but it’s always been the main defining feature of the Republican party (at least during my lifetime).
They never believed any of this stuff. It was always a smokescreen for misogyny, racism and homophobia.
I just discovered Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative recently. It pretty much laid the foundation for the current Republican mentality that paved the way for Trump.
The Conscience of a Conservative
Sounds like one of those gag books made up of nothing but blank pages.
