Look, to me the distinction in the modern American political sphere has always been:
-Democrats want to have intrusive government that tells citizens how to live their lives down to an excruciating level of command detail.
-Republicans want to have limited government where citizens get to decide for themselves how they will live.
To me this has always been the bright-line distinction between the two parties, and was the basis for every political decision I ever made and every vote I ever cast.
But it’s obvious now that these traitorous pieces of pretend “conservative” garbage never actually cared about limited government. Rather, they were ALWAYS in favor of intrusive government, just so long as they got to be the ones to decide the scope and nature of the intrusion. Loathsome bastards. These bloviating pieces of amoral crap never cared about limited government. They only cared about the power they could wield.