Traditional Conservatives vs Trump Conservatives

Posted by AlanB-FaI

26 Comments

  1. No, that’s what ‘traditional’ conservatives have always been. At least in living memory. You have to go back to Eisenhower to find a republican who wasn’t a total POS, and my senior citizen father was in diapers during that administration. Nixon? Reagan? The Bushes? Nah, they’ve always been the guys on the right, not the left.

  2. beetus_gerulaitis on

    What’s missing from this picture is the tooth fairy and a unicorn – to go along with the “traditional conservative”.

  3. tacticalbaconX on

    …then they both realize they have the same nuclear hot takes on Age of Consent and Child Marriage laws and hug it out.

  4. BangBangtheReds on

    The “traditional” conservative is a myth. They’ve always been full of shit and hate and ignorance.

  5. Let’s not pretend traditional conservatives did not fully support a racist traitor who attempted to overturn an election.

  6. SaltyInternetPirate on

    Low grade propaganda! They only some times pretended to be this “traditional” conservative.

  7. Lol traditional Conservatives haven’t been this, since before the days of Eisenhower. Neocons used this image of the intellectual adult with morals and values as a cover story while the cognitive dissonance absolved them from the reality that they have always been the guy on the right.

    Actual Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde situation.

  8. CooledDownKane on

    The right completely deepthroating Ochre Overlord has me truly believing that the “traditional conservatives” have always been mostly like the “Trump conservatives” but were either too milquetoast and boring to appeal to a lot of the MAGA base or too chickenshit to fully embrace it until Dear Leader came along as the tip of the spear.

  9. That’s not describing “traditional Conservatives” it’s showcasing “small C conservative” values that can be found throughout all parts of the political spectrum.

    “Traditional” conservatives are the ones who have been trying to burn books and oppress/enslave minorities for 200 years.

  10. The left one is more accurately a classic *Republican*, a species that became endangered in the 80s and extinct in 2016.

    “Conservatives” have always been authoritarian and racist, but only recently have they become overtly so.

  11. mr-hank_scorpio on

    They’ve all been like this since the Civil Rights movement. Amplified by Obama getting elected. Conservatives just aren’t hiding it anymore.

  12. chriswithabook on

    Traditional conservative ideas are what got us here. Ask a conservative what they disagree with. Usually it’s not much. They just wanted to get here more slowly so we’d all think it was normal.

  13. all of the *”traditional”* conservatives

    are the reason why trump is president

    everything trump is doing

    is what *”traditional”* have dreamt about

    there is literally no difference

  14. There are very few “traditional conservatives” left, and anyone that considers themself that but voted for Trump a second or third time are really just MAGA that aren’t smart enough to realize it.

  15. SocialistInYourArea on

    Traditional conservatives be like “limited government” and mean “no socialwelfare, less public money for education”

    They say “free speech” but only if it doesn’t threaten their power.

    “nice” conservatives just act like they want everyone to have rights, except when that would mean they give up privilege or power

  16. Conservatives have been following a whatever-works methodology to gain power and control since the 80s, feeling the ends justified the means. The rules they followed brought them to this.

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  17. More and more, I view Donald Trump as a paid spokesperson for the

    #**Heritage Foundation Administration** with Russell Vought firmly in control.

    Donald goes along with all the Heritage Foundation plans as long as the money keeps flowing and his history as a pedophile is kept out of public view.

  18. And yet the “traditional conservatives” never stop shielding and enabling the orange one.