What issue are you most right-wing on?

[Alben Barkley]

Guns, free trade (if that counts as right-wing), some foreign policy issues, most issues related to “wokeness” nowadays. (Not that I’m even socially conservative, I just hate the dogmatic and authoritarian approach some take to these issues.) NOT criminal justice — I am strongly opposed to the death penalty and think “tough on crime” policy, including/especially on drugs, is mostly stupid and bad — but I do think the whole “defund the police” thing is insane. Both politically and it’s just the wrong way to go about reforming the system.

Oh and if NIMBYism is considered a left-wing thing, I am definitely far right on that issue. But in my experience NIMBYs can be both progressives and conservatives. Though it does seem like left-wing cities have more housing problems, as a result of both NIMBYism and some policies (like rent control) that have the opposite of their intended effects. I guess I’d be “right-wing” on that stuff too, but to me the goal is far more important than the ideological label; in this case the goal is affordable housing and less homelessness. I don’t really care if the best way to get there is considered “left” or “right” by ideologues; whatever works should be what we go with. And clearly what some Democrats are doing in cities like San Francisco is NOT working.