this refers to self-defined "conservatives." But there are least three distinct dimensions to politics which define "liberal" vs. "conservative" or "left" vs. "right": government can be good vs. free market über alles; tolerant of "alternative" life-styles (gays, ethnic minorities, etc.) and new ways of living vs. traditionalism; and military interventionism vs. isolationism. (The free-market and traditionalist GOP under Taft was quite isolationist, for example.) It seems to me that asking people if they're conservative doesn't produce much of a meaningful answer. A traditionalist can turn against free markets upon discovering that the latter undermine tradition.
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