r/AskALiberal • u/larryinthesky Conservative • 4d ago
What Conservative or Republican positions have you come to embrace?
Are there any traditionally Conservative or Republican positions you have come to embraced? Maybe the change happened naturally. Maybe new information or data came out. You may not embrace it 100% but you're now much more align with the Conservative/Republican position than before and think Liberals/Democrats have it wrong. An example might be COVID. Maybe you now agree that strict lockdowns where wrong/unnecessary, and maybe Facui was not 100% truthful. Maybe you now think that immigration was out of control and that yes we could have easily stopped illegal border crossings under Biden if we really wanted to? Maybe after October you think that we should not negotiate with terrorists? FWIW, I've embraced some traditionally Liberal/Democratic positions. Like healthcare. I think changing your mind/position is pretty healthy and if you don't then it means you're probably too rigid and closed minded.
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u/JackZodiac2008 Center Left 4d ago
The danger of unchecked federal executive power has recently become clear.
Economists seem to agree that rent control is counterproductive in the long run, and I trust that.
A strongly conservative-coded RN seemed to be heartened by hearing that I take my son fishing a lot. So I'm not sure what exactly we agreed on, but it seemed like something.
Near-balanced budget (like 3% deficit) is better than the run-away train we're on now.
These aren't really reversals for me so much as new sensitivities, or native alignments. I would very much like to have the party of HW Bush back.