The ugliest passions within the GOP is the very core of conservatism.

Are we pretending that conservatism and all that ugly shit are somehow separate? People don’t get all excited to go out an vote for tax policies to send more money to the wealthy and deregulate businesses. Not really. They want to make liberals cry and make POC second class citizens and punch down on women and gays. Just look at the shit they get supposedly “cancelled” over from various platforms. They get ostracized for hate speech, not because they want to dismantle the EPA or whatever.