Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ on Nostr: For many conservatives, their professed commitment, before the rise of Trump, to ...
For many conservatives, their professed commitment, before the rise of Trump, to preserving institutions and supporting free markets hinged on believing those institutions and markets (re)enforced social conservatism's preferred cultural hierarchies and power structures, while creating wealth along the way. But the moment they came to view existing instructions and free markets as undermining those hierarchies and power structures, they turned against both.
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