Of course, conservatives - being liberals - learn the wrong lesson. Instead of deciding that they need to take over and gatekeep their institutions they decide to make limiting institutional power the goal - then try to fight against efforts to increase institutional power.
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As a way to build a coalition "limit institutional power" as a final goal is a guaranteed loser. It provides no patronage jobs for your supports. It provides no money for your clients. It works against the goals of bureaucrats so is constantly being eroded.
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What balances out these negatives? That your coalition gets to keep more of what they earn and maybe use their wealth to build institutions of their own? Ok, then when *those* institutions come under attack what do you do?
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You can't survive that attack without a positive claim. Not "we don't want CRT" - but it's scary to make a positive claim when the left opposes your positive claims and you fear opposing them.
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The point is not to legislate people into becoming moral. It's to enact laws that make immoral behavior cost prohibitive. And it worked pretty well till the boomers came of age and ignored centuries of precedent.
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Those efforts rely on having enforcers who agree with your goals and want to use the tools that the legal system gives them to further those goals. You can see what happens when that's openly not the case with DAs who oppose prosecuting crimes.
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Once certain topics become acceptable in public discourse, laws become mostly irrelevant.https://mobile.twitter.com/bespokecommie/status/1404276824352313344 …
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