Bless their little fascist hearts

[Hortensis]

12. It would be very helpful to not mistake all conservatives for MAGA bigots.

To keep an invitation open for more to join in opposition to what's happening on the right.

A lot of conservative people believe they're not racist. Social scientists may not draw the line so clearly, but a pre-tRumpism study I read about found that that's essentially true for these conservatives -- they're not, but they are less outraged by racism. The negative reaction is real, but not to as strong a degree as among liberals with our very strongly egalitarian ethos.

I don't know what trumpism-era studies are showing but, previously, overt displays of racism reliably repelled and were rejected by these conservatives. I've seen this here in the south, among people who disapprove just as strongly as any others I've known.

That's probably why tRump doesn't behave much worse than he does to feed his more rabid following. It's not the Democrats' reaction to his calling neonazis "very fine people" that made him cut way back on that, but reaction from the nicer right.