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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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Conservatism

On the right, evermore people are rejecting the term conservative as a label for themselves and some conservative politics as their project. A coup is not a conservative thing to do; it's revanciest, it's something that is trying to go back in time. So I think the term reactionary rather than conservative can capture the aggressive stance towards the current order. This captures the attitude and disposition that I see increasing me at the center of broadly speaking conservative politics.

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