Your initial reaction was the only sane path history could have gone down.

Shoulda called her a cunt

In North America, it means (traditionalist, nationalist) right-wing whereas liberal means left-leaning. Similar to European definitions

Conservatism: Originally inspired by natural law and formed by the upper-class, conservative parties today are middle-class organisations that seek to preserve established traditions and the current status quo of a society. They normally advocate traditional values as authority, nation, religion, family, stability and continuity. Over the time they incorporated some liberal values, especially on economic issues (free market policies).

From wikipedia

Conservatism in the United States is one of two major political ideologies in the United States, with the other being modern liberalism. Traditional American conservatism is characterized by a belief in individualism, traditionalism, capitalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states, although 21st century developments have shifted it towards right-wing populist themes.

In the US, liberal–conservative is synonymous with left–right

American political ideologies conventionally align with the left–right political spectrum, with most Americans identifying as conservative, liberal, or moderate.

with US political scientists & pollsters preferring labels liberal, moderate, conservative over left, center, right, eg

Americans’ ideological identification was steady in 2024, with an average of 37% describing their political views as “very conservative” or “conservative,” 34% as “moderate,” and 25% as “very liberal” or “liberal.”

However, much of lemmy seems to deny that conventional alignment exists: I don't know if that's basic ignorance or tankie disinfo/stupidity.

Amen. Trump is showing the world what America truly is. The rest of the world sees this. Many Americans do not.

And to throw an olive branch, many countries are a Trump away from the same realization.

Who is "we"? You had some big part in this? Stop blaming yourself and please stop blaming me. There's not much need to self-identify with an oppressive system if you're not actively doing the oppressing. The nationalist "we" is garbage.

The amount of times it should be over for him, you could fill a library

That significant portion dont realize they are closer to 0 than they are a 100k-inair

Wow i just need to be famouse and i can sexually assult people? Man this really is the land of the free. You got my vote.

You sound like someone who still believes a party what doesn't blab about it's cruelties, wrongdoing and stupidity is a party that is innocent and good. Haha, good one. Who has been the opponent of trump the first time around in 2016, Hillary Clinton, right? Personally I always welcomed trumps presidency. Thanks to him the whole world can see what a farce our democracies are (and it's not only the MAGAs I talk about). And as Europeans it enabled us to distance ourselves more easily from the forced western dependency/decadency. I just don't know what's better: being a US colony as before or the recent stupidity, having a straight-from-BlackRock-lobbyist as a chancellor... Darn, and that's one of the reason why people become more and more aggressive while becoming decreasingly tolerant to differing world views...

That's because they can't spell it

Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.

Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.

This isn't a Republican problem, it's a wealthy elites problem.

I wasn't aware of backronyms, so I fixed it.