re: #87 Rightwingconspirator

The answer to the use of the terms is stop confusing/tarnishing ordinary moderate conservatives and their thoughts with the modern extremist GOP. (edited to swap that right) If you are a progressive and want to tarnish one with the other for rhetorical gain, okay er, well played as they say.

If you want to speak in a fair description, then the vast gap between the TP GOP and moderate conservatism of past years like Eisenhower, or an acceptance of Roe V Wade as a plank, or in a parallel case when the NRA was for universal handgun registration.

There should be room for moderate conservative thought to come up, get discussed and maybe even impact policy where appropriate. Are middle class tax reductions such an awful concept? That’s conservative old school. Tax cuts for the Waltons? Thats a modern GOP extreme policy, undeserving of the term conservative except when you turn the word into a curse.

I contend that it is more the current-day Republican party you need to chew on regarding this, as their base works to say that anyone who doesn’t agree with their extremist views is not a conservative.