It's hard to overstate how harmful to discourse it is to equate simple conservatism with supporting the killing of people perceived by many further down that si

It's hard to overstate how harmful to discourse it is to equate simple conservatism with supporting the killing of people perceived by many further down that side of the spectrum as political enemies, regardless of who was most at fault. That is not just "being conservative", and asserting that it is implies that a conservative can not have a differing opinion on complex situations like these, and therefore contributes to the stereotype of the hateful conservative.