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Yes.If we live in a country where the lesser of two evils is, as the thread puts it, a serial liar and cheat, would you conceded we have a rather serious problem?
Support for Pres. Trump isn't as much about what he does as it is about what he doesn't do that a Democratic president would.Trump's leadership? What leadership? His failed businesses and public servant positions he never held? The money he inherited that he actually would have been better off never spending were it not for his need to be seen and admired? And what policies? In what way is Trump a conservative? All we knew was he wanted to build a wall and put Hillary in prison.
For example, conservatives are very much opposed to amnesty and open borders. Key members of the Democratic leadership and some of the Democratic 2020 candidates have plainly expressed the desire to abolish ICE and cease enforcing immigration laws. This isn't an exaggeration or a right-wing conspiracy. You'll find it front and center in footage on mainstream news sources. Even the less radical candidates support immigration policies intolerable to conservatives, and could easily be forced left on the issue, hence... Pres. Trump wins by default.
Most conservatives have no use for national initiatives related to climate change. They see them as useless, dangerous, hypocritical, a threat to national sovereignty, a threat to productivity, a threat to mean quality of life, and worse. Key members of the Democratic leadership and many of the Democratic 2020 candidates (I'll call these groups "Key Democrats" in future) are very much pro- national-climate-change-initiative. When their rhetoric is nonspecific, conservatives worry. When it becomes specific (such as Rep. Cortez' 'Green New Deal'), it becomes intolerable to anyone right of center. Pres. Trump isn't proposing any national climate change initiatives, hence... he wins by default.
Conservatives are violently opposed to the idea of reparations for slavery. Key Democrats are not. Some have flirted with the idea as policy. Pres. Trump would have nothing to do with the idea. Hence... Pres. Trump wins by default.
Conservatives are violently opposed to policies relating to "equity", i.e. stricter race and gender quotas, expansion of Affirmative Action, tearing down of statues of Confederate statesmen, multiplication of rights and privileges for homosexuals and transsexuals, expanded social welfare, etc. Key Democrats are not. Pres. Trump has never espoused any of these policies during his campaign or tenure as president. Ergo... he wins by default.
Gun control: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Protection of religious freedom: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Protection of objectionable speech, online and in public forums: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Not starting WWIII with Russia: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Abortion: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Public vs. private healthcare: Pres. Trump wins by default.
Really, it can't be overstated how abhorrent progressive values and ideas are to US conservatives, and by extension how greatly conservatives value an (admittedly flawed, unaccomplished) leader simply because of what he doesn't do.
@Alexandre may not see this as a "good reason" to support the man, and perhaps he's right, but I suspect that if somebody gave him the choice of being slapped in the face or shot in the head, he'd choose being slapped in the face, and if critics wondered aloud why he chose to be slapped in the face, he'd claim he had an "excellent reason" for doing so.
Such is US conservatism vis a vis Pres. Trump.
You're looking at a minority and extrapolating to half a nation.The only thing I agree with you on is that there is no confusion about it. Trump won because of pure unadulterated hatred. The hatred that cause people to believe that Hillary Clinton and Jon Podesta were literally sacrificing children to Satan at a place where people eat pizza and play ping pong. The hatred that continues at rallies where people chant for any liberal whose name is mentioned to be imprisoned.
One could just as easily argue that Antifa is proof the entire left is comprised of violent, hateful thugs and anarchists, or that radical leftist race and feminist groups prove the left universally despises men, whites, and white men especially.
If this doesn't describe you and you don't want to be painted with a huge paintbrush, don't do it to others.
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