What do you guys think of The Economist’s analysis of the different types of conservatives (using survey data from ~14,000 respondents to the 2024 CES)?
To me, the Vance/Hawley populist and isolationist crowd feels less like traditional conservatives and more like right-leaning progressives. They push for government intervention and social programs in ways that don’t fit the old-school conservative mold. Almost like a flipped progressivism with a cultural spin.
Curious what you all think, does that framing make sense as a way to understand where conservatives are today?
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