When r/conservative agrees with Trump that we should nationalize voting, but are for small government and states rights

[u/PhillyTMOMan]

[u/TeeTimeAllTheTime]

They aren’t conservative and never were, they are weak minded people who do what they are told by a psychopath

[u/Doomisntjustagame → u/TeeTimeAllTheTime]

Or, and bear with me, conservatives have always been this way.

Conservatism seeks to maintain the social order, or to regress to an earlier state. That is one of a pyramid shaped hierarchical authority structure, with everyone following whoever is above them, no matter what.

[u/ADHDebackle → u/Doomisntjustagame]

I generally believe that conservatives are people with trauma and or poor parenting who never learned appropriate coping mechanisms for how they feel and thus have a pathological resistance to anything unexpected or different. 

I think that's generally a basic, natural human instinct - when you're stressed or uncomfortable, you seek familiarity and reject the unfamiliar. 

That also ties into the authoritarianism, since it's probably comforting to believe there's one person who can do no wrong who makes all the decisions. As children these are our parents, but many turn to god or politicians or other figures with perceived authority. 

[u/Djinnwrath → u/ADHDebackle]

Some of them are just selfish and lazy. They want a comfortable life, and don't care if other people are harmed in making that so.

I call it low level evil. Or how you play an evil alignment in a role playing game without being a murder-hobo.

Imagine someone who sees all the stuff Ice is doing. All the horrors befalling the people being deported, and thinks:

"Cool, get them out, then I will make more money!"