I have struggled to explain to other people why, perversely, I have become more politically conservative during the reign of Donald Trump. This despite having pretty deep left-wing convictions and never having been anything other than disgusted by Trump himself. I have struggled to explain this to other people, but not to myself. It is perfectly obvious to me.
“Conservatives” is a word that captures a bunch of different things. For a lot of left-liberals, my former self and some part of my current self included, it just means the enemy. They are monstrous bigoted backwards sewer people who stand between the status quo and all the good things we can’t accomplish because of their stubborn or wrongheaded or evil or superstitious or selfish commitments.
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