# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3527
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3527 "2021-02-21T22:03:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > First bolded part: WHAT exactly are these people seeing that to them constitutes trump “fighting for us as hard as he can every single day”?? They’re seeing him being as much of a liberal-exasperating outrageous asshole as he can be every single day. That’s what passes for “fighting for them” in the degraded state of conservative ideology these days. American conservatives as a movement have basically given up on having any constructive goals. As [I said a few months ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-the-urge-to-be-transgressive/925907/46), they’re immensely frustrated that so many of the goals their leaders exhorted them to champion over the last few decades just ended up falling apart or not achieving anything for them: > [@Kimstu](#): > > They’re sick of being wrong, and the cognitive dissonance is stressing them out so much that they’ve just gone into full-blown “break it all up and burn it all down” tantrum state. > > They were wrong about racial integration and black civil rights destroying American society […] They were wrong about women needing to stay in the home […] They were wrong about a “moral majority” of conservative Christians launching a lasting religious revival that would “take the country back for Christ” […] They were wrong in their vision of the US as a permanent majority-white country […] They were wrong about Saddam Hussein having WMD […] They were wrong about market-fundamentalist economic policies conducing to general economic stability and prosperity […] They were wrong about anthropogenic climate change being a hoax […] They were wrong about gay people being sick or abnormal or evil […] They were wrong about the belief that resisting “European-style socialized medicine” would result in their having reliable, affordable, effective health care […] They were wrong about identifying their own interests with those of wealthy individuals or corporations who had zero sense of loyalty to them in return […] They were wrong about labor unions being just unnecessary parasites whose absence wouldn’t make any difference to the availability of decent jobs or the protection of workers’ rights […] They were wrong about creationism or “intelligent design” or whatever being scientifically valid alternatives to evolutionary theory […] They were wrong about COVID-19 being a hoax, or no worse than the flu, or a Chinese or Democratic plot, or a momentary problem that would just “vanish” soon […] > > And most importantly, they were wrong in believing that the conservative politicians they ardently supported actually gave a shit about the well-being of any Americans if it would interfere with the increasing enrichment of the rich. More recently, they have added to those frustrations being wrong about the 2020 election being “stolen” from Trump, and about the January 6 insurrection being a patriotic act that would restore Trump to power, and about anti-government free-market individualism (as exemplified in Texas energy grid policies) not needing an adequate regulatory framework. American conservatives over the last half-century or so haven’t been able to achieve or create anything significant (largely because they’ve been following politicians who had no meaningful governmental goals other than to expedite consolidation of wealth and power among their elite cronies). In fact, most of the significant achievements of that period, such as expansion of rights, social benefits, etc., have been things that conservatives started out strongly opposed to, even if they ended up accepting them more or less grudgingly. The only thing they feel confident of being able to accomplish is being reactionary obstructionist assholes who piss off liberals. And Trump has been constantly presenting himself as a master of reactionary obstructionist liberal-pissing-off assholery, so that’s what they see as his “fighting for them”. Of course, Trump despises them as “low-class” and “losers” and only plays up to their adulation for the money and popularity, but they don’t realize that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140)._