Pulling in a stupid direction for stupid reasons is not progressive.The term you are looking for is actually "right-wing populist".What "progress" are they making?
We used to be "The Nation of Immigrants". They want to progress beyond that old nonsense.
I liked our old ways.
Tom
ETA ~Were I able,
I'd make a video of modern GOP leaders pulling down The Statue of Liberty, with all that "send me your poor" stuff they've progressed beyond.~
Nevertheless, I am a Conservative and Trump is a Progressive.
Welcome to the brave new world.
Tom
Especially when they tell themselves they're 'returning' to a mythical past of American purity and dominance.
Okay, so your choice is just to use words as you'd prefer.
Yes, words are harder to understand if you don't use them properly.
There are no guarantees. I do not underestimate the right-wing fascists and their representation in the House and sparse representation in the Senate anymore. We were just one person shy of Trump's second.
No. The fact that Trump won the majority at CPAC indicates our country is fucked. The right-wing consists of far right-wingers and fascists.
I described what I meant by the words.
But backwards isn't. He's literally fighting progressive changes.Pulling in a stupid direction for stupid reasons is not progressive.The term you are looking for is actually "right-wing populist".What "progress" are they making?
We used to be "The Nation of Immigrants". They want to progress beyond that old nonsense.
I liked our old ways.
Tom
ETA ~Were I able,
I'd make a video of modern GOP leaders pulling down The Statue of Liberty, with all that "send me your poor" stuff they've progressed beyond.~
Nevertheless, I am a Conservative and Trump is a Progressive.
Welcome to the brave new world.
Tom
Especially when they tell themselves they're 'returning' to a mythical past of American purity and dominance.
Stupid is a rather subjective judgement.
Small incremental changes forward, sweeping restrictions, losses of rights and progress.
Right now it means Not Anti-Science, Not Anti-Women, Not Anti-Equal Opportunity.
...like communism, socialism, Marxism, responsibility, mandate...
As in like how I actually did say, but you seem more interested in wasting people's time.
Trump didn't lose the election by 8 million votes. He lost several states by very fine margins, states run mostly by GOP governments that have been aiming to restrict access to the ballot.
You forgot that the US has lost around a million people, and those most heavily impacted by it are those who think the virus was a hoax, and other "conservative" idiots.
Too spread out. A notable plurality of deaths were in Florida, California, Texas and New York. And while deaths likely went under-reported in Florida, they aren't remotely in touch with a Federal Election margin of victory in 2020, where the state voted heavily in favor of the anti-socialist dumpster fire.
More like ‘regressive’ than progressives. The GOP’s actual stances/actions on taxation, regulation, and social issues make it rather clear they would like nothing more than to usher us into the 1890’s. The Gilded Age is closest to what they seem to think is when America was great. I recall one congressman even saying it was great in his grandmother’s time, which was in that age.What "progress" are they making?
Of course, I know about the few thousand votes that decided the electoral college. The same was true of Trump’s 2016 “landslide”, but the popular vote margin was only 3 mil. Again, if the popular vote margin swells to 10m they’re going to have to cheat that much harder just to win the EC.
It might help if you are mindful of the difference between economic liberalism and social liberalism. Conservatives tend to favour the former and deprecate the latter. The tendency among progressives is to sacrifice some of the former for the sake of the latter. Neo-conservatives like Hillary Clinton - and now Joseph Biden - try to have it both ways. That has not worked out well for the vast majority of the electorate since the early to mid 1970s. Before then the rising tide lifted all boats, albeit at different rates.
Yeah, "progressive" does not mean pining for the past. It is not progressive to say Make _____ Great AgainPulling in a stupid direction for stupid reasons is not progressive.The term you are looking for is actually "right-wing populist".What "progress" are they making?
We used to be "The Nation of Immigrants". They want to progress beyond that old nonsense.
I liked our old ways.
Tom
ETA ~Were I able,
I'd make a video of modern GOP leaders pulling down The Statue of Liberty, with all that "send me your poor" stuff they've progressed beyond.~
Nevertheless, I am a Conservative and Trump is a Progressive.
Welcome to the brave new world.
Tom
Especially when they tell themselves they're 'returning' to a mythical past of American purity and dominance.
And in what universe do you think they haven't already cheated?
WUT? There is no such universe.
the term for Trump and his supporters is reactionaryPulling in a stupid direction for stupid reasons is not progressive.The term you are looking for is actually "right-wing populist".What "progress" are they making?
We used to be "The Nation of Immigrants". They want to progress beyond that old nonsense.
I liked our old ways.
Tom
ETA ~Were I able,
I'd make a video of modern GOP leaders pulling down The Statue of Liberty, with all that "send me your poor" stuff they've progressed beyond.~
Nevertheless, I am a Conservative and Trump is a Progressive.
Welcome to the brave new world.
Tom
Especially when they tell themselves they're 'returning' to a mythical past of American purity and dominance.
Stupid is a rather subjective judgement.
Hillary was advocating small, incremental, changes. Trump was advocating huge sweeping changes.
That makes Hillary the conservative choice and Trump the progressive choice.
I don't even know what liberal means any more. It doesn't seem to mean anything. It's a label partisan dumbasses use to tell the viewers what to think before the dumbass says anything important.
Thomas Jefferson was a notorious liberal who owned black people. Stalin is viewed as a leftist, when he looks more like a TeaPartier with power than AOC.
These words just get so complex in the 21st century.
Tom
