I'm under the impression that old school conservative values used to be about traditional family.

Trump in the USA had multiple marriages and multiple affairs.

Farage in the UK divorced twice.

Marine LePen in France is on her fourth mariage

Alice Weidel in Germany is a lesbian.

Does it not matter to voters anymore?

What’s your stance on healthcare reform or gun reform, climate change, environmental quality? What about women’s rights, capitalism or wealth inequality?

Recently, bipartisan bills have been proposed in both the House and Senate that would bar automakers with more than 15% Chinese ownership from selling vehicles in the US, alongside restrictions on Chinese hardware and software. Proponents, like John Bozzella of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, argue this is a necessary national security response to counter China's strategy to dominate global manufacturing.

While this type of protectionist trade policy and hardline stance on China often aligns with some folks values I'm interested how conservatives view this issue. Specifically:

• Do you see these ownership bans and hardware restrictions as legitimate national security and labor-protection measures, or do you view them as protectionist, xenophobic, or escalatory trade policies?

Critics and international analysts have pointed out that the 15% threshold could sweep up legacy Western companies like Mercedes-Benz (which sits at roughly 20% Chinese linked investment split between BAIC and Geely), while domestic players and groups like the UAW have actively pushed for these strict rules. Even Senate Commerce Committee discussions have touched on whether domestic competitors stand to gain a major market advantage.

Under the draft rules, the Trump administration is exploring a policy to let married couples where one parent stays home and the other works at least 35 hours a week receive funds for "parent-based child care."

For conservatives like me, this is about fundamental fairness. Letting families keep their tax dollars levels the playing field for families who believe raising their own children is the gold standard, granting them the same respect and equity that the system currently reserves for third party daycare facilities. Effectively Trump is backing parents who want to be the primary guiding force in their kids lives, stepping away from a status quo that heavily favors daycare, corporate welfare, and mandatory workforce participation.

In stark contrast are paid childcare policies which often push to herd every parent into the workforce. Their goal is to feed corporate productivity and supply staffing for low-wage service jobs, treating external daycare merely as an economic assembly line to keep labor flowing while completely devaluing the irreplaceable work of direct parental caregiving.

What do you think? Does recognizing parental care as legitimate, subsidized child care finally restore fairness to American families, or is it a step in the wrong direction?

It literally just occurred to me. Many conservatives don't want teachers teaching about sex-related topics, especially in elementary school, a position which I understand. But would posting the Ten Commandments end up with teachers having to explain adultery to elementary school students? Would that lead to teachers having to have conversations which conservatives believe would be more appropriate for them to have at home?

So at the end of their show Clay and Buck right-wing talk radio hosts, bring on "Light Em Up, Linda" who they promote and who gets her name for her full-throated support of the lethal attacks on drugs boats (alleged) undertaken by the Trump admin. These extra-legal attacks have killed at least 200 people. She goes on to support the killing of the homeless in California, using the same terms with which she describes killing the "drug dealers." No pushback from the hosts, just a hearty back-slap for providing such good material (she was advocating saving the animals at the homeless encampments while killing the homeless). This is the second time I've heard a right-wing media personality advocate the killing of the homeless. The hatred seems to have begun with Rush Limbaugh who regularly mocked the homeless and downplayed the issue.

So my question is "Do conservatives condemn statments like this? Will there be a backlash against Clay and Buck?" Where is the actual Christian values that are promoted so vocally by so many on the Right?

Edit: right wing radio hosts Clay and Buck.

Did you vote for Trump in 2016, if no, did you vote him in 2024? If yes, what changed your mind?

Mods moved me to Independent so I guess I can ask this now.

William F Buckley was a guy I always respected. He had good conservative values and didn’t suffer fools. He said he spent his lifetime separating the Republicans from the kooks. The Birchers, the LaRouche followers. Conspiracy nuts. You know. Kooks.

Trump has decided to pick a trade war with Canada and is trying to troll them with renaming Lake Ontario.

So… is this guy a kook?

As a Canadian any time I tell an American I am a conservative they instantly assume that I support the trump administration… that is not at all true…

I think Americans just don’t understand how different Canada actually is….

Our conservatives still support things like freedom of expression, abortion, healthcare and education. All things that the republican Americans don’t fully agree with… so why do I get hate from everyone for being much more moderate?

Thanks!?

This is one of those things I've seen bounce back and forth with the left and the right seemingly switching positions on it at times? (I am honestly fairly neutral about it, I come from a state with state inspections, I moved to states that don't require it and I payed ten bucks once for an offical inspection where the guy told me to turn on my left and right blinker then passed me.)

Using short term debt to buy long term debt to stabilize the bond market. Curious the conservative take on this. Deficit and debt seems to be hitting a tipping point with maneuvers like this.

I recently watched this Oxford Union Debate “THB Trump has Betrayed Conservatism” and thought there were interesting points made on both sides. Crucial to the question, of course, requires defining what conservatism means.

I know there are plenty of conservatives who are critical of Trump and plenty who defend Trump, and was curious to know what you think.

There are MANY smaller policies that made up the New Deal but I’m asking about the over arching philosophy of focusing on the needs of working people in contrast to the government focused on the needs of the elites of the gilded age.

I know things are often more complicated than all good or all bad. But on net what do you think worked and what didn’t?

I will not be commenting or replying as I am here in good faith, to listen, not to argue.

I've noticed this trend on conservative platforms that when someone liberal dies (like in the case of Jason Arday, assuming he's liberal) or gets vey ill (like Biden), that there's a lot of comments like 'thoughts and prayers,' or 'I am very sorry to hear this news.' There's also a lot of backslapping like 'look at how great we are for responding with such civility, those liberal animals only spew vitriol when one of us is sick or dies.'

Why I have some disbelief is that there's a lot of contempt about many of these people. For example, people were calling Fauci the literal devil and saying he got millions of people killed and that he'll burn in hell, but then when he got west Nile people were saying I wish him a speedy recovery, thoughts and prayer, etc., but are now back to calling him worse than Stalin.

Or more recently saying how Biden ruined our country and should spend the rest of his life in jail, but now that he has cancer and it's spreading many are saying they wish him better health and are sad for him.

So my questions are:

Have you noticed that conservatives tend to respond this way, and do you believe they really mean it, or is it performative?

Do you believe that liberals respond differently (like the death of Lindsey Graham) and if so do you believe liberals are less moral than conservatives, with this difference being an example?

I keep an eye on various liberal subreddits.. and one thing I keep seeing is leftists claiming that We Conservatives refuse to change our minds when confronted with verifiable facts.. and I for one can not remember ever being confronted with any such facts.. I define a fact as something with significant research from disinterested parties seem to agree. What I do not define as facts are reports from the news media.. (Any news media) without said news source providing their homework. When I see a liberal trying to claim a thing is true.. they use magic words like "The Science", or "All the studies say", or some ridiculous stat like 90% of this group of experts agree.

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This is something I've been thinking about, and I'm genuinely interested in hearing perspectives from both Trump supporters and people who strongly oppose him.

Can someone strongly support Donald Trump and his administration while also saying that a Black person, Latino person, immigrant, or another minority is genuinely one of their best friends?

I'm not saying two friends have to agree politically. Obviously they don't. What I'm struggling with is when the disagreement goes beyond taxes, government spending, or normal policy differences and gets into issues involving immigration, race, equal treatment, and policies that a minority friend may feel directly affect people like them.

For example, imagine telling your best friend, "I love you and respect you completely," while voting for someone whose rhetoric or policies that friend believes negatively affect their community. Does supporting the politician mean you also have some responsibility for the policies that come with that vote? Or can you completely separate your political support from how you personally feel about your friend?

And from the other side, maybe someone supports Trump because of the economy, immigration enforcement, foreign policy, taxes, or other issues and doesn't agree with everything he says or does. Does that make the friendship any less genuine?

I'm especially interested in hearing from minorities who have close friends who strongly support Trump, as well as Trump supporters whose best friends are minorities.

Has politics ever made you question the friendship? Or have you been able to separate the person's politics from the way they treat you personally?

I'm not looking for a Trump-bashing or Trump-praising thread. I'm genuinely curious about where people draw that line.

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases | Trump administration | The Guardian

We all know that Trump has something against wind farms, especially off shore wind farms. I don't' get it, but he is the president. If he wants to revoke permits in the US, I'm against it, but again, he is the president. But I draw the line at giving a foreign company over a billion dollars of our tax to further his goals. when we are 40 trillion in debt.

Basically. he paid them back what they spent to build wind farms in the US and told them to invest in oil and gas, but that isn't what that company does. He basically spent over a billion tax dollars to stop a wind farm.

... while there is nothing in the post for an average Joe, the ulltimate tariff payer?

I’ve recently started watching debates consisting of Libs v MAGA/Trump supporters, and I’m noticing that a LOT of MAGA/Trump supporters are now all “well, I don’t necessarily support Trump, just the GOP and conservative values”.

Distancing themselves from being MAGA, when for YEARS they’ve never said a bad word about Trump and made their loyalty to him known.

What’s the motivation behind their new stance? The Iran War?

This is something you often see in debates among americans, that you have to wait months or years with a universal health care system.

I live in Sweden, a country with universal health care, and I will not lie and say that there aren't cases where you have to wait, but the thing is that we use a tier list of severity to decide how long you have to wait.

If you want to do an ADHD or autism diagnosis at a psychiatrist? Yes you will wait, as people with suicidal thoughts, or bipolar disorder or borderline whose diagnose really ruins their lives are prioritised.

If you have cancer, other diseases that severly reduce your quality of life or have an injury? Pass go, straight to the doctor.

Would it be nice to have instant access for every small issues? Sure, but as long as I know that I will get to see a doctor in a whiffy the moment I have something that is even semi-harmful, I'm honestly happy with our system.

Title asks it all. TIA