What principles? Stop pretending they had any other than Christian policy. Period. Also, @marcelias.bsky.social take note, former GOP know the MAGA base and boy have they turned fascists quickly AND openly

Nixon said that too.

As bad as Nixon was he did some good. Trump is a Spoiled Angry IIiterate Degenerate Criminal Qaf (yeah, I had to use all of those words) who thinks he owns the White House and demands loyalty as the country's Despot. His vibe:

Given how conservatives have conducted themselves at least since the 80s, I think this is more the culmination of their principles.

Reagan & Bush paved the way for the modern GQP.

Plump can do anything he wants, maybe that includes outrunning a bus !!

Eric Cartman as an old man.

Only like 10% of conservatives actually had principles to begin with, and all of them are at The Bulwark. You are a force of nature Sarah!

Yeah the Red Party is not conservative anymore. It’s whatever Trump says whether randomly or in service to Putin.

mostly the latter.

You can’t abandon something you never had to begin with.

There's some odd phrasing by Trump, et al, refer to a presifdent as having rights, not powers.

Until proven otherwise…

Welcome back. We missed you.

They’re planning a big return to core principles once they’re done getting rid of people they find icky.

I suggest the principles weren’t there in the first place.

Bingo

Uh no!

Perhaps you should stop calling them conservatives?

"Limited Government" - Limited to whatever it is Trump wants to do today.

Narrator: They never really had principles, this is who they've always been.

Welcome back. It’s gonna take you a couple weeks to catch up on all the 💩 you missed.

He’s the chief law enforcement officer…. Now….Loy’s to catch up on. Tomorrow is gonna be wild.

And democratic leadership is still in hiding

… Yeah, follow the constitution. You’re not a king.

Were they really principles if they can abandon them so easily and cheaply?

Easy when you never had any actual principles to begin with.

Libertarians too... most are just happy that Trump pardoned the Silk Road guy, they don’t seem to mind tanks in the streets, masked federal agents snatching people from their homes, or EOs attacking the first amendment.

Sarah - I think it's reasonably safe to conclude that the folks you're talking about never believed in these principles. In retrospect, they pretended to be principled because they saw a means to an end.

Didn’t someone write a book entitled It was all a Lie? Stuart Stevens

I've seen so many videos of interviews with folks at Trump Rallies and many have said they thought Biden had been replaced by James Woods playing the part of Biden. MAGAts never make any sense and they believe anything.

I do not think you can call them conservatives any more.

Maybe "Preservatives". They're all about self preservation and many of them are pickled.

Hypocrites. They are hypocrites and liars.

Revoke his bail.

Conservative Principles is an oxymoron

They love the gun ads during campaign season, and they sport the boots every chance they get, but a bigger group of cowards (mostly men) I’ve never seen. They’re scared of a make-up wearing, private-school attending draft dodger, who’s never been in a fight in his life. And they mock gays?

Surprise !!

Rather than waiting for Jan 2027 to upend Trump, why not start it by flipping the House in the next month? Convince three House Republicans to declare as independent, caucusing with Dems and a new #BlueHouse can blast Trump‘s #OverreachRampage to bits. Many will be unelectable anyway.

Let them see the practical wisdom, both in achieving career sustainability and saving democracy, to DECLARE AS AN INDEPENDENT, caucusing with Dems. Dems can make that choice easier with #ProjectCarrot. DNC Chair Martin can vow not to support or fund a Dem against them.

No GOP primary, no tough Dem in the general. They can #FlipTheHouseNOWandBeHeroesForever not DJT lapdogs. Please read here how this all can be possible with #ProjectCarrot strategies in play before, during, and after the #BlueHouse shreds the Trump cabinet. open.substack.com/pub/toddtelf...

Suggest that these new independents should rebrand as #ConstitutionalConservatives, turning back Trump/Project 2025 #RepubloFascism that is #ThirdWorldingAmerica. They will be #PolarOppositePatriots sacrificing their former party to #RestoreAmericasGreatness. #CountryOverParty Why can’t this work?

Is there any such thing as ‘conservatives with principles’ these days? If there are, they are invisible.

They’ve been squeezed out since the #NorquistPledge back in the #NewtGingrich era late last century. Any Republican who wouldn’t sign the pledge and vow never to raise taxes on the rich would be primaried into oblivion.

Republicans can never be taken seriously again when they claim to be for limited government, state's rights, free markets, constitutionalism, etc. All burned down for a con man!

These ARE their principles. Hope this helps.

I am 43 and trying to remember a time when conservatives had principles. I remember them certainly proclaiming to have them, but never actually adhering to them?

I’m 62 and I can answer that question…never.

I was about to say, (62 later this year) I've been voting his entire 43 years. My first Presidential vote was for Mondale/Ferraro. The Reagan & Bush era was terrible but produced some great punk rock music & bands.

😆 punk rock was not my jam, that was my brother’s thing…I was the dancer 💃🏽 in the family so my preference was R&B and top 40’s. I agree, Reagan & Bush sucked, but the 80’s and early 90’s were the best time for music!

I love "a little bit of everything but not all of anything" as music goes. I love a lot of different kinds but the 80s punks had a field day writing Reagan & Thatcher inspired tunes.

🎯🎯🎯

Apparently, a Bible is an easy thing to prop your ego up behind as long as you never have to open darn thing.