re: #237 BeachDem

So close, Jennifer—you’re just inches away from being a Democrat. Time to give up the “conservative” ghost.

The descent of the GOP into authoritarian know-nothingism

It is not as if anti-intellectualism suddenly appeared with the election of President Trump. The habitual rejection of expertise on everything from climate change to the economic impact of immigration has been rampant in the Republican Party for some time…

Trump has merged the know-nothingism of right-wing populism with a far more dangerous intellectual evolution from defense of limited-government conservatism, which was formerly at the heart of modern conservatism, to outright worship of authoritarianism. Now, far too many conservatives have reverence for executive power and reject constitutional government.

washingtonpost.com

When I was in law school during the GW Bush administration, the conservative movement was definitely drifting towards loving them some executive power. I saw it up close in a lot of Fed Soc events.