Does "Conservative" Have Any Meaning Today?

Last night I had the pleasure of being on a Zoom panel with California Congressman Jared Huffman (our guest for “Five Questions With” on July 4), and Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin.

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
@GottaLaff. Hallelujah! Vance asks, "how have you been describing it?" I have been using Christofascist and/or authoritarian.
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As I noted earlier, they're not conservatives, they're anarchists.
@Wileymiller @GottaLaff Let's not insult the anarchists like that.

@GottaLaff Thank you! This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Calling MAGA/Federalist Society justices “conservative” is no different than calling misogynist anti-abortion zealots “pro-life.” In both cases it’s giving them the benefit of a label that casts them as the “good guys” while not even being accurate by a dictionary definition.

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Please stop using the "C" word — Absurd-World Country

June 2, 2024 For those of us who have strong political views, it’s hard to comprehend that there are some people in the United States who blissfully bury their heads in the sand and don’t pay much attention to what the differences between the two major political parties really are. Chances are, mos

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@karenvkelly @GottaLaff Political definitions are designed to confuse for those seeking power.

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How about MAGA-Make Authoritarians Govern America

@GottaLaff Laffy: They’re extremists, plain and simple…
@GottaLaff I agree that we need a word other than “conservative” to describe the rabid Trumplicans, but “neo-monarchical” does not exactly fall trippingly from the tongue. Maybe just “monarchists”? Although I stand with Mr Joyce if there’s a move to just use “corrupt”.

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purely extremists .... no conservatives allowed.

@tdwllms1 Fascists, Nazis, White Supremacists, but not Conservatives
@GottaLaff When did “reactionaries” go out of style?

@GottaLaff Since at least Nixon, "Conservative" has meant "bigoted neofeudalist".

Every election since then has been about concentrating power in the hands of their approved oligarchs/aristocrats and taking power away from the rest of us.

They literally want women restricted from being allowed to leave their fiefs without permission, no longer even peasants, they are serfs under the GOPs preferred legal system.

@GottaLaff My term for the #Trumpist gang, including those in #SCOTUS has been "RW Radicals". The term "conservative" implies trying to conserve something, like the law or US Constitution. These "people" want to destroy the rule of law in favor of a fascist dictatorship built on White Supremacy, theocracy, and misogyny. They seriously need to be voted out of any positions of power this year. #VoteBlue #VoteLikeBlackWomen #KamalaHarris2024