how interesting, fta.
if you think there's a dialogue to be had, initiate one.
but there's nothing mythical about the existence of populist conservatism. it's a discourse. it has consistent signifiers and logics. it's pretty well-known and is easy to find. you could find it. anyone can.
and if you looked at that discourse, you'd know that more often than not, when an issue is processed through it that processing operates in a cookie-cutter way.
that obviously doesn't account for all the ways in which people use the discourse. i would hope no-one is exactly point-for-point an intellectual reproduction of it.
but i see no problem with analyzing and manipulating conservative discourse here because the way the statements about the world work, and the ways the logic they enact works, shapes how they're used.
i've never claimed to be doing anything different.
btw passive-aggressive isn't very conducive to dialogue either. fyi.
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