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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The problem is I dont believe theyve changed.

Do you mean "have they abandoned conservative values" then no I don't believe they have either. But conservatism and the GOP are not the same thing.

There's always going to be conservative positions in America. Less government, free trade, capitalism. And those are ideals you have to fight against for what you believe in. But the GOP literally stands for none of those things now.

Conservatism vs. liberalism or socialism vs capitalism are going to be debated until the end of existence. I'm not expecting Republicans to abandon actual conservative ideas, but the fact that they're finally willing to turn away from the baggage that was coming with it, and especially since even the ideals they believed in are getting tossed aside.

It's why I have several conservative friends that I don't run to with every Donald Trump quote to insist that they agree with it. Yes, we debate Universal Health Care. We debate the role of police in society. We debate taxes. And those are debates on merit. But when one of them tells me they regret voting for Trump, I'm not going to throw it in their face and insist "You haven't changed!" The ability to make a mistake and both acknowledge and remedy it is a good characteristic and shouldn't be throw back into people's faces.

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