We’re going to need to start by defining what we mean by “conservative.” Speaking as someone who was occasionally taunted as a “conservative” (despite having many relatively centrist views) by people in my college debate club, I think that many progressives either struggle or simply don’t care to come up with fair definitions for what a conservative is.
But to be fair, I’m not sure even the average American conservative has a great sense of how to define conservativism.
For my current purposes, a practical (but obviously hand-waving) characterization would be “someone who often votes for Republicans and would strongly consider doing so in the future”. I added the word Republicans in the post to help clarify.
We’re going to need to start by defining what we mean by “conservative.” Speaking as someone who was occasionally taunted as a “conservative” (despite having many relatively centrist views) by people in my college debate club, I think that many progressives either struggle or simply don’t care to come up with fair definitions for what a conservative is.
But to be fair, I’m not sure even the average American conservative has a great sense of how to define conservativism.
For my current purposes, a practical (but obviously hand-waving) characterization would be “someone who often votes for Republicans and would strongly consider doing so in the future”. I added the word Republicans in the post to help clarify.