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gtyellowjacket said:
I don't know about that. Even Trump made comments a few weeks back that there may be exceptions for radicals and crazies.

I suspect that a few of those guys will go down like the pizza guy or worse and it will hurt Trump.
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Maybe you are right, but I think in order for him to look as blameless as possible to his base he had to let them all go to continue the rouse.
 
Callatoroy said:
He could have done that with an executive order. Getting some slowdown didn't require passage of the bill. Unilaterally he could have shut the border down. Agree?
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Callatory - lawtig has offered up his definition. Since you are adamant that he doesn’t understand what the word means, would you do us the courtesy of offering up yours as well?
 
Executive order abuse has gotten totally out of control. Obama did it too much but the practice that is in place now is totally insane. Trump just signing things into effect is insanity.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
"Conservatives tend to favor institutions and practices that enhance social order and historical continuity."

Please explain how MAGAs are favoring institutions or historical continuity? They are tearing institutions apart and setting fire to our constitutional order.
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Yes, this is another way that MAGA is divorced from what American conservatism has analytically presented itself as. But in the global conservative tradition it's perfectly consistent. MAGA prizes things that they see as traditionally part of their version of cultural "American values" - gender roles, Christianity, lack of regulation, gun ownership, white Americans (and in some cases white male Americans) having firm control of cultural and political institutions, etc. - and they want to get back to that. And keep in mind that MAGA is really a cultural movement as much of a political one; its members are frustrated and motivated by perceived cultural displacement as much (and for many of them, likely more) as by political issues.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I don't know about that. Even Trump made comments a few weeks back that there may be exceptions for radicals and crazies.

I suspect that a few of those guys will go down like the pizza guy or worse and it will hurt Trump.
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Didn’t the pizza guy get shot and killed by police a few weeks ago?
 
Paine said:
It doesn’t say that they tend to favor institutions in the abstract. It says they tend to favor institutions and practices that enhance social order and historical continuity.

Social order is simply referring to a society that is undergirded by organizing social structures and institutions. These don’t have to be the institutions that have been core to the American liberal project since the New Deal. Conservatives have long derided even these meager programs.

Appeals to these types of institutions and constitutions are more inherent to liberalism rather than conservatism. The big issues with these terms in American political life is that there are a ton of “conservatives” who are liberals by any normal political definition. One thing the Trump era has brought us is a realigning of American political terms along these more traditional lines: socialists/social democrats, liberals, and conservatives.

The institutions and social structures that MAGA relies on are at a much more base level than constitutions and the liberal norms. The nuclear family, patriarchy, traditional religion, etc. Conservatism has been steeped in these principles since its inception.

Think about it this way: Edmund Burke surely thought he was favoring institutions and practices that enhanced social order and historical continuity when he opposed the French Revolution.

There are some that think conservatism started with Buckley, but I think that’s hogwash honestly.
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I think you can pretty clearly trace western political conservatism back as far as, at least, the French Revolution and those who wanted to maintain (and later, return to) the Ancien Regime or, at least, some form of absolute monarchy. But I also think that Buckley could be credited with the creation of a peculiar strain of "modern American conservatism" (or perhaps you could say "liberal conservatism" or "constitutional conservatism" to your point) that still preached the value of traditional institutions but did so in the context of the liberal political framework of the constitution. In other words, he essentially cast the Constitution (which was certainly not a conservative document at the time of its drafting) as the framework for the protection of classic conservative values.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
And I am not buying the Autism angle. While people with Autism often have trouble reading others, their faces don't lie because it is all subconscious.
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I'm not buying the autism bullshit either, but autistic people don't always use the same facial expressions as other people. Making them hard to read.

But that's not at all what is going on here.
 
HintonJamesHeel said:
Executive order abuse has gotten totally out of control. Obama did it too much but the practice that is in place now is totally insane. Trump just signing things into effect is insanity.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was probably the biggest executive overreach in US history, but we are pretty OK with it now.
 
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