Trump is a conservative in the sense he wants USA to go back to 1956.
And when you look at what the country was like then, who could blame him.
Rosa Parks? MLK? Cesar Chavez? Every gay kid who committed suicide? Every writer or intellectual who shaved under the utter sameness and uniformity 50s culture mandated? and don't forget about every single person who worried about dying and nuclear Annihilation from the Cold War turning hot.
But yes, the robust social safety net and Progressive taxation rate which kept us from running a horrible national debt and kept income stratification relatively narrow are enamoring memories.
