I get that conservatives disagree with excessive immigration on the grounds that is weakens social cohesion. However, I believe that Mexican culture is significantly closer to ours than European culture. And yet the focus is always on reducing immigration along the southern border and attention is never placed on Europeans.

I often hear conservatives say that the best way is to leave them be, and liberals say the best way is to give them money.

Which is right? Is a third option better?

For what it’s worth I’ve really appreciated this subreddit and have learned a lot by reading views outside of my own. Thanks in advance for your response.

Let’s put aside the obvious convicted felon that gets talked about all the time and there is no clear consensus from conservatives that he actually committed a crime.

I’m speaking about convicted felon Charles Kushner who is selected to be the ambassador to France. What’s you’re feeling about his selection? Should his past criminal convictions bar him? Should criminal convictions bar anyone from government?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-nominates-charles-kushner-serve-us-ambassador-france-strong-advocate

How do you feel about Putin and Russia?

How do conservatives feel about Russia paying right-wing podcasters such as Dave Rubin to spread misinformation and propaganda?

Many people say that Biden and his administration are responsible for our terrible economy, but how did they ruin our economy?

People who were nominated for President or Vice-president at any point of their lives don't count, obviously neither do they count if they won. So people like Nixon or Cheney don't count.

Off the top of my head I would say:

Kenneth Star Elizabeth Dole Newt Gingrich

I’ve seen a lot of commenters here complain that the left relies on ‘identity politics’, and I wonder how you justify excluding Trump from that category. He runs on insulting broad swaths of people — immigrants, democrats, etc… His campaign definitely did targeted outreach to minority communities. He famously complained that Harris isn’t really black. Isn’t all of that identity politics?

I am old enough to remember when conservatives attacked the federal government for overreach and claimed to be for States Rights. Now we see Trump and his appointees threatening to imprison blue state officials who refuse to comply with the Federal Government directives.

How come Republicans no longer support States Rights?

As a conservative myself I’ve held a pretty strong belief since the beginning of the war that republicans are just trying to be contrarian to the current administration since they happen to be pro Ukraine. Like seriously, we moved heaven and earth to save Kuwait when they were invaded but sending old equipment to Ukraine is an affront to God? For me, if anything, this feels like the most objectively good proxy war we have ever supported by a wide margin. We’ve helped absolutely humiliate the reputation of the Russian military, weaken their military overall, and saved a European nation from total loss at an absolute bargain price while losing none of our own men. How isn’t that worth it?

So I'm personally no big fan of Biden and I think it's fair to say that some of Biden's policies surely may have exacerbated certain economic problems.

But at the same time economic policy changes can take a long time to truly take its full effect, and so quite realistically many economic problems may also be partially due to economic policies enacted 4 or 5 years ago.

And so for example we had massive tax cuts that were put in place during the last Republican administration. At the same time really no significant additional revenue streams had been created so this clearly had an enormous impact on the federal deficit and public debt, and by extenion probaly led to a significant inflationary effect. And tariffs that were put in place at the time are also believed to have had a moderate effect on prices and inflation we are currently seeing. And the CARES ACT of 2020 for example cost over $2 trillion.

And so when we look at the data we see that public debt and the M2 money supply massively increased in 2020 when Biden was not yet in office.

So why put blame largely on Biden?

After reviewing some statistics and observing social media trends, it seems that more minorities are leaning right-wing or Republican than ever before. What do you think is driving this shift, and why is this happening now for the first time in American history?

This isn't a question for people who live on the US-Mexico border. This is for people who live in areas with 95% white non-Latino populations. How do you think immigration is impacting you?

Once Donald Trump completes his final term, do you think MAGA voters who have supported him since 2015 or 2024 will maintain the same enthusiasm for a new Republican candidate, such as J.D. Vance or someone outside his 2025–2028 cabinet?

Prices went up during the pandemic, supply chain issues were blamed. Prices never went back down. I see conservatives blame Biden for the high cost of gas, groceries, and fast food. The gas/grocery/fast food chains are raking in record profits in the billions over the past years and increasing.

I have brought this up on various online posts when the right blames Biden for costs. I never get an answer, and the only one that did answer said I don't know anything about business.

Thanks.

many people voted for trump on the policy of cheaper goods such as groceries, but walmart for example aims to increase prices in order to counteract this which is the opposite of the goal of lowering grocery prices.

what are your thoughts on this?

I'm getting into a reddit fight about the definition of neoconservatives.

So I'm here to ask you, the good people of ask conservatives, are these distinct groups of politics, or are they all the same description of one type of people

The Republicans majority in the house was narrow, the narrowest for the majority party since 1930. The senate the Republicans have 53 vs 47 for the Democratic caucus. What major legislation do you think will pass during the next congress?

I ask as I am curious about how I chose my occupations as I grew older compared to how the younger generation has chosen theirs and why. Liberals feel free to also answer. I feel this could spark some interesting back and forth and insight on the opposite sides.

I've read this comment thread and I see that some conservatives focus on traditional family values and some on individual rights and free markets.

When I look around at our society, I see families that don't have dinner together anymore. I see communities that are alienated and don't interact much. When I analyze why, I see nuclear families where both parents are working to get by. Even when home, they are glued to work emails and work chats. I see people of all ages choosing to spend their free time scrolling a social media feed, a streaming app, a video game, instead of seeing each other. I see families where every spare minute is designed to be in service of enriching the child's resume with structured activities.

I think these negative changes in our society are either:

• People responding to free market competition and incentives to "hustle" harder

• Companies doing such a good job at hacking our dopamine responses that we choose to do the digital thing instead of the traditional family thing

To put it simply, if free market values conflict with traditional family values, what does a conservative do?