• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I upvoted you in a “well yes, but actually no” sort of way. Republicans know exactly what they want – subjugation of everybody who’s not them, using any and all means available – but still don’t feel secure enough in their power to come out say it that bluntly yet. So they come up with random shit to act as euphemistic proxies for it, which sounds like ineptitude to anybody who’s still trying to give them some sort of benefit of the doubt.

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      1 year ago

      Fair. Although I’d say that applies more to the mid-tier and up Republicans. The rank-and-file Fox News watchers don’t know what they believe unless Fox told them five seconds ago.

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        1 year ago

        Nah, even the rank-and-file know they want to subjugate everybody outside their tribe. They may not necessarily understand how the things the leadership pushes accomplish that – and more to the point, they might not even realize they’re actually often not in the tribe the leaders are pushing it for – but they don’t need to because they have blind faith instead. Deference to authority is what being a conservative is.