Chainsaw Conservatives

Dancing with a prop for a slasher film, Elon Musk shows us what he wants to do to us

Elon Musk by Marcin Paśnicki, ripped paper by Sarah Richter, texture by Jensen Art Co, all from Pixabay

A catchphrase of the George W. Bush administration was compassionate conservatism. As Bush leaned into his “War on Terror” with one side, he made a show of support for faith-based charities on another. It was meant to balance his image, perhaps.

But now we don’t have “compassionate conservatives.” We have chainsaw conservatives. Politically, they conserve nothing, so the operative word is just chainsaw.

The CPAC crowd doesn’t want to live in a country with gender or racial diversity

A couple years ago, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2023, Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”

CPAC 2024 was more of the same. Jordan Black pretended to be MAGA, went in, and gave us video of what they were saying.