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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It really didn't start changing until the 2010s when it was hijacked by extremists. Before that, conservativism was a pretty consistent ideology.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The hijacking of the Tea Party movement and what happened afterwards was a watershed moment for us in the USA. And we failed miserably.