"Conservative" has been the polite term for "Right-winger" for decades, maybe a century or more.

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6. I've started leaning more into the other side of the horseshoe, and equate them with the Soviets.

It annoys them more because it turns their own favorite rhetoric about us back at them.

There has always been part of the Conservative Movement that has held a sneaking admiration for the Bolsheviks, for the way a small faction could play others against each other then, in a few ruthless moves, take total power. Several clusters of these have been riding Trump to push their agendas: The Conservo-Bolsheviks, the Theo-Bolsheviks, the Pluto-Bolsheviks, the Techno-Bolsheviks, etc.

They all end up being equivalent to the classic Red Menace: a small faction of radicals take power, upend our way of life, take away our freedoms and our property, and will leave us a weakened and diminished nation. Every single one of them point us into that downward spiral.