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The HN title is more accurate and less click baity.

• jacquesm 6y ago
  I don't know about that. This is fairly obviously an attempt at doing an end-run around Trump's tweets being labelled fake or doctored (if they are) and to have a Trump friendly medium to reach the voters ahead of the elections so they get to control the message. Trump's brand of politics has relatively little to do with the conservatives as we've come to know them through the ages, it's more of a takeover of a political party by an outsider than anything else. Many people who call themselves conservatives are loath to be associated with Trump and his cabal. Though of course they likely don't mind ramming through some supreme court justices that will vote along their preferences.
  • jfengel 6y ago
    He got 60 million votes in the last election, and nearly all will do so again. They may loathe him but they loathe him less than any liberal opponent. He sees that as support and acts accordingly. It may not be "conservatism" in some outdated sense of the term, but people who use that label vote for him in droves. Linking the two is not unfair.
  • SamReidHughes 6y ago
    Not at all. Trump's actual governing has been conservative. Not that there haven't been some awful bits, but it extends beyond judges to cabinet appointees, military posture (no new wars), stances on open borders, and miscellaneous stuff, like federal hiring based on skills, not degrees. He's governed more conservatively than the last two Republican presidents.