@carnage4life I think that for many conservatives it's because they have a static idea of the "just right" amount of progressivism: that e.g. the civil-rights movement of the 1950s-60s was good, but at some point all the real problems were fixed and to go further is just going too far.

So it's OK for 1960s Star Trek to make episodes attacking racism, but for modern Star Trek to make episodes attacking transphobia is bad "woke".

I think that among conservatives this is a common feeling, and the point they identify as "just right" is invariably either in their own childhoods or a point just prior to their birth.

@jedbrown @ColmDonoghue @carnage4life Those graphs show that *partisan* vote over time is pretty static and essentially completely explained by changing racial demographics of the electorate.

But you'd probably get different results polling on individual *issues* (in fact I know this is true for some specific ones) since the positions of the parties themselves change over time.

(e.g. same-sex marriage was a position with little mainstream support in 1992, but supported by the Democratic Party by 2012 and nationwide law not long after.)