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JHB

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4. Conservatives have courted these people for forty years or more

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 07:58 AM

Aug 2021

They encouraged these people to identify as "conservatives". They endorsed it and claimed these people as part of their "majority" to legitimize their policies which -- when not "right-wing extreme" up front, were at least right-wing extreme-adjacent.

All the people who like to now call themselves "real conservatives" were fine with it and helped make it happen.

They don't get to disown them.

The "right-wing extremists" are conservatives because conservatives made it that way. I'm fine whith them being called that, as long as it's not used to soften the point.

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