alt Hacker NewsAs far as I can tell most conservative argument points seem to be about the price of gas. If there is a democrat in the whitehouse, the price of gas is astronomical. If there is a republican in office, gas is far cheaper somehow than what I always end up paying.
Gasoline is like the least important cost metric in my life.
I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole on "what conservatives believe" and weirdly, and this is from both Roger Scruton, and the book "The conservative mind". is it's a bit like porn, you can't define it, but you know it when you see it. I mean this is sort of a tangible points conservatives make about believing in "common sense" that there's basically a higher truth that we all know exists that should guide us.
Roger Scruton in I think this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eD9RDTl6tM. Says that basically conservatism in the 80's in the UK was whatever Margaret Thatcher believed. This really I think helped me understand why the conservative transition from Reagan/Bush to Trump went more smoothly than I thought it would among trad conservatives.