Opinion | Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose

It's certainly weird being a black woman in her late 20's and being told over and over by Republicans that there's a "real version" of conservatism out there that doesn't oppose me and my rights when the only conservatism I've ever grown up with has explicitly been that way. Not just me, but also my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents and, if history is any indication, their great grandparents before them, and on and on.

The labels might have changed from Democrat to Republican (again, also before I was born), but that core idealism of preserving the status quo or even trying to roll it back has never, ever worked out for "my kind".

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