1. These debates about "real conservatives" have same problem of essentialism as issues of real Christians, Muslims, socialists, etc
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2. There's tendency to want to say that Trump isn't a "real conservative." Or ISIS isn't "real Islam" or abortion bombers not "real Xians"
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3. This inevitably calls to mind the "no true Scotsman" fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman …
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4. One way around this is to adopt a kind of indulgent nominalism. A conservative is anyone who calls himself/herself a conservative
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5. But maybe another way around it is not so much nominalism as acknowledgement of social reality that creates terms.
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6. The phrase "actually existing" (used in old Marxist debates) is useful here. Trump is actually existing conservatism.
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@benrhoffman That ISIS is actually existing Islam for a few hundred thousand as against very different Islam of 1.6 billion
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