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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

"Conservative" is just a subgroup of liberal at this point, since there's not a monarchist status quo for them to cleave to like "conservatives" in the 19th and early 20th centuries could in some places (note: this gets weird in liberal monarchies like the UK where the monarchist dictatorship is just an accepted part of liberalism). "Conservative" is just the sub-category of liberal that's defined by being even more racist, chauvinist, and extremist than is typical of mainstream liberalism.

It's not a binary, it's not even a spectrum, it's two competing blocs of one hard-right ideology.