For a long time, I've argued that the "conservative" movement is simply not conservative in any meaningful sense. It's deeply reactionary. As Paul Campos notes, the jackbooted authoritarians at The Federalist have finally come out and identified as such.
The Revanchist Right has told is exactly who they are. They want forced birth. They want to guy Social Security and Medicare. They want to outlaw same sex marriage. They want to kill prisoners whose guilt may or may not exist. They want to punish corporations and individual citizens who disagree with them.
As Campos notes, if you really believe the shit about Biden being a Socialist who's trying to turn your kid trans, then this form of anti-democratic politics makes sense.
What's depressing is that we are about to hand one of the branches of government to these authoritarian theocrats because of global inflation and scare stories about crime.
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