@Snowshadow@mastodon.social I listen to conservatives every single day, and that's what I'm trying to tell you, it doesn't sound like you do.

To be clear, Trump does not represent the conservative perspective. He is an idiot who parrots back the little bit that he understands, and so often conservatives end up correcting him when he gets it wrong. And I'll emphasize that: Trump gets to conservative perspective wrong very often and ends up being corrected by conservatives. He's just that dumb.

But that's one reason not to listen to rallies because the rallies often enough end up being the speaker, Trump I assume, vomiting out stuff that isn't actually the conservative position.

That's the thing about Trump. He's not actually a good conservative. And the best way to counter Trump is to emphasize that he is not a good conservative, to emphasize to conservatives that he doesn't actually represent them.

Unfortunately so many people end up promoting Trump to conservatives by buying into this position.