The missing nut graf was “The GOP is nostalgic for the antebellum South; Democrats are nostalgic for 2016.”
The point stands that both parties are focused on the rear view, which is pretty much textbook “conservative,” regardless of how the term has been intentionally co-opted.
Even that definition is myopic. The Dems only want to return to 2016 in the same way I want to return to 1933 when minimum wage was actually valuable. It’s not a focus on the past when your actions wouldn’t change even if the past wasn’t there.
The missing nut graf was “The GOP is nostalgic for the antebellum South; Democrats are nostalgic for 2016.”
The point stands that both parties are focused on the rear view, which is pretty much textbook “conservative,” regardless of how the term has been intentionally co-opted.
Even that definition is myopic. The Dems only want to return to 2016 in the same way I want to return to 1933 when minimum wage was actually valuable. It’s not a focus on the past when your actions wouldn’t change even if the past wasn’t there.