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Umm, hate to break it to you but "Conservatives" favor small government and less freedom damping regulations.
I would say that’s true other than reality and history. My only question is your definition of “freedom damp(en)ing regulations.”

In reality and history “conservatives” only consider businesses as free from regulation, but humans on the other hand are completely unprotected from this “freedom” “conservatives” love to proclaim.

You can’t virtue signal freedoms being stolen when those same people are literally taking human rights and protections away daily, and I haven’t even mentioned voting rights being stripped away.

For the “silent majority” to really believe they are majority, they would have zero need to restrict votes from anyone on American soil. But sure go on…
 
Yeah, well just because you're a dumb idiot with an unsecured (!) iPhone who uses it exclusively to twit nonsense on Twitter, IN ALL CAPS, doesn't mean the entire world will bend over for you. I'm sure you have enough friends and two sons who will do that for you at the drop of a dollar bill.
 
Umm, hate to break it to you but "Conservatives" favor small government and less freedom damping regulations.
They're in favor of smaller government only if it benefits them or when the other party is in power.

Example:
They cried and screamed whenever Obama issued an Executive Order, saying he was acting like a dictator. Sen. Ted Cruz even called Obama a “lawless president” for issuing them. But when Trump was issuing Executive Orders left and right, no Conservative/Republican objected or complained.


They're in favor of less freedom damping regulations unless they agree with those regulations or they apply to non-Conservatives/Republicans.

Examples:
(1) anti same-sex marriage laws. How does if affect them if a gay/lesbian couple gets married? It doesn't.

(2) Voting restriction laws.


In a backlash to historic voter turnout in the 2020 general election, and grounded in a rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, legislators have introduced well over four times the number of bills to restrict voting access as compared to roughly this time last year. Thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills this year (as compared to 35 such bills in fifteen states on February 3, 2020).
 
This is disturbing no matter where you sit. Spying on members of Congress without just cause, would be a rather huge abuse of power.

There were multiple leaks of classified information including FISA court documents to the press. It was 100% warranted. James Wolfe, a staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee was actually one of those leakers.

People quickly forget Obama's DOJ actually obtained the phone records of AP reporters to do the same thing.
 
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LMAO!!!!!!
Why is this a surprise and irritates some folks?
This has been happening since GWB days. It started to really come out during Obama era about the subpoenas and gag orders. Nobody was safe.

Personally I dislike these and feel they are abused. Want to blame someone? Congress keeps extending this ability and still going strong.
 
Still standing as far as I know.

 
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