re: #70 HappyWarrior

Like I know conservatism is a really messed up ideology right now but there’s gotta be some people there who hear these bizarre tangents whether it’s Trump or Gorka’s weird rant shit about hamburgers and think “Really this is what my ideology is reduced to?” But then again, conservatism in 2008 stopped being a serious attempt at an ideology because the conservative base threw a national tantrum over the fact that we elected a black guy with an unique name whose father was from Kenya and instead of encouraging their base to act like adults, Republican elected officials and pundits have encouraged their base to act like morons with a complete disregard for basic reality to the point where elected Republicans actually say shit like vaccines are communism but yeah let’s fret about AOC wanting the marginal tax rate to be what it was under Ike.*
*A legitimate top 3 President since FDR.

conservatism has never been an ideology. conservatism is a reaction mostly to nineteenth-century liberalism, which IS an ideology, with a whole slew of platform positions. Conservatism is basically “drown government in a bathtub” and “don’t fuck with rich people.” It isn’t an ideology. It’s just a chamber of commerce, with some fascist elements thrown in.