They can save the republic.
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First, a few definitions from psychologist Karen Stenner.
3 groups identify as conservatives:
Status quo conservatives, laissez-faire conservatives & right wing authoritarians.
Right wing authoritarians (RWAs) are averse to complexity (which includes diversity).
laissez-faire / free market conservatives favor minimum government intervention.
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More on RWAs here:
Then the RWAs (and laissez-faire conservatives) took over the party and adopted policies contrary to status quo conservatism.
This leaves the status quo conservatives without a party.
Yes, eventually they will be removed.
Even dictatorships don’t last forever.
See👇for how Chile got out of theirs
[Aside: I know some people think we should have more than 2 major parties, but under our Constitution, that won’t work well.
Why? Because with more than 2. . .
If no candidate gets an electoral majority, Congress picks the president.
I can’t imagine that going well.
They didn’t know the presidency would become so powerful. They imagined Congress making laws & president as mere administrator.
There's a way around this without an amendment. . .
It looked like a RWA candidate, Le Pen, might win, so Fillon asked his conservative party members to vote for center-left candidate Macron to keep a dangerous extremist out of office.
Like this:
But no prominent party leaders—even those who denounced Trump as a dangerous extremist—would endorse HRC as the better alternative.
Now we know why. They are really Trumpians disguised in conservative clothing.
The Democrats move right (with the influx of never-Trumpers), the GOP becomes hardened as a fringe white nationalist/ white supremacist party, and a new party forms to the left (think Bernie bros).
By coming together with the never-Trumpers & putting democratic values over policy differences, we can defeat RWA extremism and prevent the cruelties of fascism.