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5. What Does “Democracy” Even Mean, And Why Conservatives Don’t Want to Be Conservatives Anymore (Oh, and the meeting of white supremacists at Mar-a-Lago)

Is This Democracy

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Is Trumpism Not Conservative?

The idea of small government came out of a time when government was doing presumably too much to spread equality, right? To create more equality in the country. A lot of the conservative movement was a reaction against that growing equality. The people who are now never Trump, they actually don't have a problem with equality, a lot of them. But they still believe in small government.

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