• andrew_bidlaw
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          2 months ago

          That’s being picky about ‘republican’ and ‘conservative’ as these names get further distanced from their meanings. In some sense. The NAME of a certain party is the main qualifier if you are this or that, not a policy or a thought behind it. While republicanism is against monarchy (and first-day-dictators), conservatism too is hard to imagine in the way of proactively undoing established policies to celebrate something that old that it’s new for most living citizen, so it’s not conserving but introducing a new reactionary twist. It’s just a passing thought I don’t think I captured completely.

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            22 months ago

            I get what you’re saying but I think you’re running into a little issue of “lower case republican” vs. “upper case Republican.”

            • andrew_bidlaw
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              12 months ago

              That’s true. Methinks, it may or may not be a little stone in the shoe of their current campaign if taken further in some more productive angle