Nah I think they have systematically codified identity politics into American liberalism. They knew exactly who they were gonna grab. The "mainstream" view of what a conservative is is usually just city folks larping as cowboys in their pristine trucks. This gives off the message to liberals that "THOSE people are victims of identity politics! IM a free thinker!"
Most actual conservatives are people who hold wildly different views from one another, but have one thing in common. "Let me live my damn life, and I'll do the same for you"
You of course get the radical racists etc. but they paint the ENTIRETY of conservatism as those radicals. While simultaneously latching on to every word of their chosen idols. Those who follow idols and not ideals are falling right off the cliff with the herd.
Nah I think they have systematically codified identity politics into American liberalism. They knew exactly who they were gonna grab. The "mainstream" view of what a conservative is is usually just city folks larping as cowboys in their pristine trucks. This gives off the message to liberals that "THOSE people are victims of identity politics! IM a free thinker!"
Most actual conservatives are people who hold wildly different views from one another, but have one thing in common. "Let me live my damn life, and I'll do the same for you"
You of course get the radical racists etc. but they paint the ENTIRETY of conservatism as those radicals. While simultaneously latching on to every word of their chosen idols. Those who follow idols and not ideals are falling right off the cliff with the herd.