Liberal and conservative are not opposites on a spectrum. Liberal is an ideology, conservative is a mode of being, an inclination. In a liberal democracy, the conservatives will want to preserve said institutions. That is the Democrats. The opposite of conservative is progressive, not liberal.
They're the conservatives. The GOP, so long as I've been alive, have just been fascists. They've been quiet about it, had to have a mask on, wear the suit and tie, but they've always been what they are finally doing today.
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another mistake people made was thinking Republicans weren't liberals.
They aren't now, but that was "the gop civil war"
It was liberals versus royalists