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I need to find some self-admitted conservatives to have dumb fights with because arguing with the populists/crypto-cons on here is rotting my brain.
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100%. Not MAGAs, but some good old fashioned conservatives.
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Largely endangered species sadly
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Most have been branded Never Trumpers and mostly kind of lie low on policy differences (perhaps) in the interest of making common cause - which is not terrible overall. I'm thinking of Patrick Chovanec.
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I think a lot of Never Trumpers have genuinely become more liberal as a consequence of their new alliances anyway (for celebrity examples see: Tom Nichols, Joe Walsh)
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Totally agree. It's been interesting to watch Bill Kristol's move left too. Although, we haven't wrung the neocon out of this crowd.
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In a very real sense, they were always trying to retrofit muscular liberal interventionism onto a conservative frame, and it was never really a good fit. IMO it's better to have them in our tent and talk them down from the really bad shit.
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Yeah Nichols is this, I think. I don’t think he’s budged on foreign policy at all, however when I still followed him I recall him confessing that, in retrospect, he was never crazy about guns, abortion bans, or basically anything advocated for by the religious right
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A lot of this goes back to northern/coastal intellectual republicanism vs. the southern strategy republicanism.