In their despair at Donald Trump’s victory, liberal pundits are concluding that the masses, especially the working class, are irredeemably terrible. That’s apolitical nonsense.
"Conservative" is just a subgroup of liberal at this point, since there's not a monarchist status quo for them to cleave to like "conservatives" in the 19th and early 20th centuries could in some places (note: this gets weird in liberal monarchies like the UK where the monarchist dictatorship is just an accepted part of liberalism). "Conservative" is just the sub-category of liberal that's defined by being even more racist, chauvinist, and extremist than is typical of mainstream liberalism.
It's not a binary, it's not even a spectrum, it's two competing blocs of one hard-right ideology.
"Conservative" is just a subgroup of liberal at this point, since there's not a monarchist status quo for them to cleave to like "conservatives" in the 19th and early 20th centuries could in some places (note: this gets weird in liberal monarchies like the UK where the monarchist dictatorship is just an accepted part of liberalism). "Conservative" is just the sub-category of liberal that's defined by being even more racist, chauvinist, and extremist than is typical of mainstream liberalism.
It's not a binary, it's not even a spectrum, it's two competing blocs of one hard-right ideology.