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Originally Posted by florentinopeces
It's easy to get the fish to bite, but your example is much better than mine. The point remains. The Democrats are defending the centrist status quo, while the republicans are advancing radical change. It matters little that the republicans want some sort of stone-aged ethnically pure theocratic oligarchy, there's nothing conservative about such a desire in the US context.
It is conservative in a sense, at least in the ethno-nationalist sense. U.S. went from slavery to Civil War over slavery, short period of Reconstruction and then the Compromise of 1877. From then to 1964 you have an apartheid-like state (Jim Crow) and even from 1964-present you have a war on black Americans through mass incarceration and the war on drugs, disenfranchising and imprisoning millions at great cost to society.
