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Can you be a TRUE CONSERVATIVE and a supporter of the current American head of state? How?

Posted - February 22, 2017

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  • 32529
    Let's see:
    True Conservative suppprts

    Lower taxes
    Reduced regulations
    Strong military
    Secure border
    Legal immigration
    2nd Amendment
    Religious freedom
    Pro life

    What's the problem?

      February 22, 2017 8:33 AM MST
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  • You don't have to be a conservative to be pro life and you don't have to be pro-life to be a conservative. In fact based on the personal liberty and individual freedom ideals this country was founded on it's pretty damn conservative to say it's an individuals choice.   American Conservatism being aligned with the Religious Right is a recent development.
      February 22, 2017 12:20 PM MST
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  • 32529
    Call it what you want... But we both know which side votes to support pro-choice and prolife issues. Also you don't have to be religious to be prolife. 
      February 22, 2017 1:14 PM MST
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  • Never said you did.  However the facts remain. What one calls themselves and how true it is are different.
    I know libs who are pro-life and cons who are pro-choice. So.............

    You're dabbling in and defining the term on Identity politics.
      February 22, 2017 1:18 PM MST
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  • 32529
    I do too. I also know liberals who are supporters of the 2nd Amendment. But I am not concerned with individual voters. What matters is how are the people in Washington going to vote. 
      February 22, 2017 1:29 PM MST
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  • Well that's Republicans and Democrats.
      February 22, 2017 1:30 PM MST
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  • 32529
    Well in USA that is all that matters.
      February 22, 2017 1:51 PM MST
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  • That's so sad.  You would think people would have woken up during the last two choices.   SHEEP!
      February 22, 2017 1:55 PM MST
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  • 1233
    Yes.

    Trump is a classical liberal not a conservative. (That's a real liberal, not the fake kind that are too yellow to admit they're red.)

    Real liberals and conservatives get on pretty well. 

    Any conservative that refuses to support Trump because he's not a true conservative is an idiot. The right can argue about the finer points after we take western civilisation back from the leftist/ corporatist scum that dominate it.
      February 22, 2017 11:01 AM MST
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  • 2515
    There are many types of conservatism, so there is no true conservatism:
    1. Liberal conservatism.
    2. Conservative liberalism.
    3. Libertarian conservatism.
    4. Fiscal conservatism.
    5. National and traditional conservatism.
    6. Religious conservatism.
    7. Progressive conservatism.
    8. Cultural and social conservatism.
    9. Authoritarian conservatism.
      February 22, 2017 11:37 AM MST
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  • 113301
    So the Republican Party long-time Conservatives are just kidding themselves that they are the TRUE Conservatives?  George Will left the Republican Party because it became Trumpism . I don't see that on your list Marguerite. Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday.
      February 22, 2017 12:08 PM MST
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  • No, Trump is neither a classical liberal or a conservative.  When you you don't follow the wording of the Constitution by strict interpretation and find wiggle room in  the document you aren't a conservative to the American design.

    Conservative and liberal are subjective terms and it's a modern myth and creation that these two camps are universal in ideals. The terms have different meanings based on the system in place.

    Trump is nothing more than a corporatist authoritarian.
      February 22, 2017 12:17 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Rosie, Trump is a populist, so he is neither a conservatism or a liberal. He is neither right, left or center. Populism and conservatism are not the same thing. Populism is a political doctrine that the common people are exploited by a privileged elites, and seeks to resolve this.

    They believe that their political and social goals are achieved by the direct actions of the masses.

    Trump's populism has characteristics of other populists, some of the authoritarian populists. 
    1. That media needs to be controlled. Not Trump's original idea.
    2. Emphasizes illegal immigration. Not Trump's original idea either. 
    3. Fascism--scapegoating minorities, removing them out of the country. Takes their land and property. 
      February 22, 2017 1:14 PM MST
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