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I mean unification with themselves. Either you are a Republican, or you are not a conservative. In contrast, the Democratic party actually tries to cater to lef
by thomastjeffery 2y ago
I mean unification with themselves. Either you are a Republican, or you are not a conservative. In contrast, the Democratic party actually tries to cater to leftists, progressives, liberals, etc. all at once: one tent for everyone who isn't Republican.
Take for example the words, "In God We Trust; United We Stand." A christian conservative can read those words as a call for compromise around a shared identity; but the rest of us can read them for the threat that they are: either you are in the in group, or you are selfishly standing against it.
If the unification of the Republican voterbase wasn't working, Utah would have put 20% of its 2020 vote into an independent candidate, just like we did in 2016. That didn't happen. Instead, those voters became Trump supporters.