But what does that mean politically? If you’re anywhere between 50 and 130 years old, the status quo economically is The New Deal. Supporting the New Deal is then the “conservative” thing, and opposing it (whether Bob Dole or Jack Kemp) is the “radical” thing.
And if not that, what change is being resisted? Racial integration? Secular liberalism? And again, when it comes to it, the “changes” they seek to reverse happened or began long before most of us were born.
I know there are people who really believe that lower taxes and less regulation and less welfare are all good things, but nobody competent and honest can spend years in government and do their jobs without admitting that the world doesn’t work like that.
At the end of the day, what these women want is feudalism, that works, without all the feudalism. They’re upset about the feudalism, so they want to go back to the good old days of “conservatism”, where they could promote feudalism without having to deal with the consequences of having actually implemented it.
