• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    Conservatives are no longer conserving the rate of change to human and social values traditional to the United States.

    Under Trump they have become fully reactionary against anything outside of their wealth and privilege bubble.

    So what Harris has done has pointed out that the GOP are not “normal” because their values are really really really far outside the norm.

    Harris flipped it. Because it is true. And she is a better politician than Trump. Poor Vance, not having an ideological raft to believe in, can only say reactionary things.

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      Don’t buy their propaganda. They didn’t become this under Trump. They have always been the protectors of wealth and privelige. You can trace that history right back to the birth of Conservativism in post-revolution France. This is just the latest incarnation.

      I highly, highly recommend Corey Robin’s book The Reactionary Mind. He breaks down the whole history of Conservativism in a very accessible manner, and shows how every incarnation of the movement has ultimately been about one thing and one thing only; preventing the enfranchisement of the disenfranchised.

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        Yeah… let’s talk about Trickle Down economics if you want to see pre Trump examples of the same agenda.