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Don’t Call Them Conservatives [1]

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Date: 2022-07-31

A Trump supporter holds a poster with a portrait of Jesus wearing a MAGA hat.

Don’t Call Them Conservatives – Alan Singer on History News Network

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183561

At the conclusion to the latest round of the House Select Committee hearings on the January 6, 2021 invasion of the United States Capitol Building, committee vice-chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) stressed that much of the testimony against Donald Trump came from conservative identifying members of the Republican Party.

However, what became clear during the hearing and in recent American politics is not only that Donald Trump incited a riot and was involved in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow a democratically elected government, but that the MAGA Republicans in the House and the Senate and Republican majority on the United States Supreme Court and are not “conservatives” in any meaningful sense of the word. They are illiberal rightwing reactionaries who are willing to circumvent democracy to maintain power. Many are political extremists, religious zealots, intolerant bigots, and racists who appeal to the basest instincts of their followers. Their ideas and actions come very close to those of the Fascist movements that swept through Italy and Germany between World War I and World War II and have come to power in Hungary, Turkey and Russia today. Whatever you call Trump’s followers, stop calling them “conservatives” or “traditionalists.” There is nothing conservative or traditional about them. Those labels just provide a sheen of legitimacy to people who deserve no intellectual or political legitimacy at all.

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