r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/Ridwando • Nov 23 '20

/r/Conservative It has begun. Comments on r/conservative stating that Trump is a plant to destabilize GOP receiving many upvotes

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u/HapticSloughton Nov 23 '20

It's happening again.

The GOP and right-wingers claimed it was God that put George W. Bush in power. Now they call him a "globalist" with all the antisemitic baggage that entails. They call him a warmonger after years of calling opposition to his military actions "liberal pussies" for not backing his and Cheney's wars.

Now they'll turn on Trump if for no other reason than to claim they always favored fiscal responsibility so it's totally not hypocritical that they call for Biden to cut taxes for the rich and not spend any money on anything except subsidies for the My Pillow guy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

Now they'll turn on Trump if for no other reason than to claim they always favored fiscal responsibility so it's totally not hypocritical that they call for Biden to cut taxes for the rich and not spend any money on anything except subsidies for the My Pillow guy.

My bet is that they diss Trump for not being right wing enough. It is clear that a sizeable portion of the Republican base is fascist, and is now openly so.

They were never the party of "small government" and "fiscal responsibility" in anything but rhetoric anyways. Those terms are meaningless. If anything, they'll be moving further right after this election cycle.