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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
I thought I would stop by since I have cooled off a bit, but I see Ty has it under control and can tell you all about what Conservatives think and believe.
For the record, Ty is wrong, and my twitter feed was full of people saying that Jack Phillips shouldn't have to bake a cake AND that the Red Hen should be able to deny SHS service, though the situations are not really comparable, as the cake case pertained specifically to furtherance of what is to many believers a sacrament, and thought Masterpiece was not decided on this basis, decorating a cake for a wedding is certainly more expressive than say throwing together a Caesar salad. See the twitter feed of every National Review contributor for confirmation (or specifically, David French, whose most recent Ordered Liberty podcast deals specifically with this issue). And many conservatives also thought that SHS bringing it up on twitter was a jackass move, but whatever. There was a fair amount of pointing out that the people cheering the Red Hen also largely intersected with the "Bake that cake, bigot!" crowd, but that's to be expected. Some people seem to be totally cool with the freedom of association thing, but only as long as it is their side "winning" by being assholes. I'm sure that the same people will be equally thrilled when someone like Cecile Richards is booted from a restaurant.
People like Ty thinking they understand conservatives in middle America is why we have Trump. I have seen a few #NeverTrumpers move to Trump agnostics and are now are full on MAGA. And it had nothing to do with Trump, but everything to do with idiots like Maxine Waters. I'm increasingly resigning myself to Trump 2020.
I'll go back to clinging to my guns and religion, now.
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But of course there are also some of the MAGA assholes who were saying pretty much exactly what Ty was saying. It shouldn't surprise people that conservatives aren't always in agreement with each other, even if they unify to hate the likes of Ty, TM and me (though, of course, there's particular vitriol for TM in certain circles).
I've taken to following a bunch of conservatives I rather like, and it lulls me into complacency. I mean, if all the conservatives were Podhoretz, I wouldn't worry about the country as much. But then one of them quotes Charlie Kirk or Laura Ingraham, and I'm reminded that pretty much all we hold dear is at risk, including the ability to put together 280 characters of coherent thought.