Just one thing: the "party" does not equate to "the conservatives." It could, but it is not necessary and, I think most of the party is not conservative anymore in the meaningful sense that word has been used for the last 100-200 years.
"We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people."
Was that a conservative party?
"The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees."
How about that?
"We also propose:
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Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;
Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement;"
The economic bent of the MAGA movement is a return to the 1950's GOP (although I don't think Trump was all on board with that either as he spent like a drunken Sailor too) "Well that means racism!!!" No it doesn't, the GOP were staunchly behind the Civil Rights movement. It is in their plank:
On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. (IUCrazy insert: that would be a fun one to debate) In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."
What did they mean by that last part?
Restoration of integrity in government has been an essential element to the achievement of our unparalleled good times. We will faithfully preserve the sound financial management which already has reduced annual spending $14 billion below the budgets planned by our Democratic predecessors and made possible in 1954 a $7.4-billion tax cut, the largest one-year tax reduction in history.
We will ever fight the demoralizing influence of inflation as a national way of life. We are proud to have fulfilled our 1952 pledge to halt the skyrocketing cost of living that in the previous 13 years had cut the value of the dollar by half, and robbed millions of the full value of their wages, savings, insurance, pensions and social security.
We have balanced the budget. We believe and will continue to prove that thrift, prudence and a sensible respect for living within income applies as surely to the management of our Government's budget as it does to the family budget.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
The cultural divide is the massive divide. That is why it gets the attention. It has been a 60 year project to break down the norms of our society and replace them with new norms. You remove men with fake tits on the White House lawn being celebrated as "our best" and the rest of this stuff mainly breaks down to how far and how do we pay for it.