• Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The Conservative movement in America has, for well over half a century, defined itself in the language of the “Silent Majority” because their goal is to be hegemonic. You can understand a lot of their politics if you see it through that lens.

    Calling them out for being weird freaks (often, even by their own standards) dismisses the core of their belief system, undermining the base argument of their rhetoric.