I'd argue the "mainstream success" of them is kinda like how fox news is mainstream: controlled chatter that they call "conservative" but is actually fairly-poorly disguised lefty stuff. Even their hiring of candace owens screamed "we need a minority to not look like a bunch of racist white people", a la what rooster teeth did 8 years ago.
Chat to me about economics and governance and I'll make even the most ardent conservative sound like a lefty in no time, it's not hard. Conservatives and especially white nationalists are collectivists of different stripes however they try to deny it.
I think that the theory that Conservatives are just controlled opposition is very real, especially people like those working in the Daily Wire etc. we've had this all confirmed now by Steven Crowder. They play the part and then do absolutely nothing to stop the left once they get in power.
I can kinda agree, even though it's hard to really put a name on what "we" are without using the broad term of conservative. Are we maga-ists? Some are, but others like myself are operating under the idea that trump has his own part in this leftist scheme that's going around, and don't want any part of it.
Well I consider myself a Voluntaryist generally, pretty much the most 'extreme' form of Libertarianism but I'm sort of teetering between a full in Minarchist or an Ancap. I feel like those are the kinds of labels that apply to people who aren't conservative and right wing but that's just me. Conservatives to me seem to vary between tradcon types, to cringe Christian Evangelicals, to the warmongering Neo-cons that are just WEF stooges.
I'd argue the "mainstream success" of them is kinda like how fox news is mainstream: controlled chatter that they call "conservative" but is actually fairly-poorly disguised lefty stuff. Even their hiring of candace owens screamed "we need a minority to not look like a bunch of racist white people", a la what rooster teeth did 8 years ago.
Chat to me about economics and governance and I'll make even the most ardent conservative sound like a lefty in no time, it's not hard. Conservatives and especially white nationalists are collectivists of different stripes however they try to deny it.
I think that the theory that Conservatives are just controlled opposition is very real, especially people like those working in the Daily Wire etc. we've had this all confirmed now by Steven Crowder. They play the part and then do absolutely nothing to stop the left once they get in power.
I can kinda agree, even though it's hard to really put a name on what "we" are without using the broad term of conservative. Are we maga-ists? Some are, but others like myself are operating under the idea that trump has his own part in this leftist scheme that's going around, and don't want any part of it.
Well I consider myself a Voluntaryist generally, pretty much the most 'extreme' form of Libertarianism but I'm sort of teetering between a full in Minarchist or an Ancap. I feel like those are the kinds of labels that apply to people who aren't conservative and right wing but that's just me. Conservatives to me seem to vary between tradcon types, to cringe Christian Evangelicals, to the warmongering Neo-cons that are just WEF stooges.