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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.