Quote me on this 'Conservative silent majority.'
Go ahead.
Do it.
Quote me on 'going back to the Reagan appeal.'
Go ahead.
Do it.
Trump won because he appealed to both Conservatives and moderates, much in the way that Reagan did. There's a term, 'Reagan Democrat,' for a reason.
You began this exchange by claiming I do not understand conservatives, then you claim harkening back to Reagan is part of why Trump won. You are factually correct that Trump did do this, that isn't in dispute, we both agree it happened.
You brought Reagan's legacy appeal into this, though not with the exact words that I used to describe your rhetoric, and are trying to dodge actually address the point I have tried to make by pretending you don't know how it relates to the argument you started when I replied to S'task.
You keep trying to ignore the large context because you wanted to make this a fight with how you started this, I'm not going to back down.
Are... are you actually just not reading what people are typing?
I am.
He is ignoring what I said about Trump being a populist, not just a conservative, and why it wasn't the 'conservative' part of Trump that won him 2016, it was the populist, and claiming I do not understand conservatives at the outset of this debate in reply to something I said to someone else.
This is not the first time he's tried this 'you're not a real conservative/you don't understand conservatives' purity spiral BS with me. He keeps acting like I have to 'prove myself conservative' in his eyes to have any place in these kind of political debates and it is infuriatingly representative of the kinda BS that makes a lot of the rest of the US not really care much about the feelings of the GOP base.
At some point the old school GoP base needs to realize they will never be in the drivers seat again, they will be front passenger seat at best to the desires of moderates and Blue Dogs who control the GOP's future.
The GOP will be a vehicle of the Blue Dogs and moderates to fight the Far-Left, if it has any future at all, more than a bastion of 'conservatism' because geography and redistricting don't care about conservative values.
Where's that 'The Future is Now, Old Man' meme.