Always looking backward, and usually wrong.

all the way back to Goldwater and beyond.

Even back in the prehistoric days, there was
always that one grouchy fucker in the back
of the cave who wanted everything for himself
and spoiled all the joy for everyone else.

Basically, it is all about- in their minds- recreating a fictional version of America that never truly existed or turning what progress has been made backwards. There is essentially no positive vision of the future for them.

for taking everything from everyone.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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type of accusation that the poor are less moral than those who make more money, and thus don't deserve any money collected from those who make more.

those justifications are the classic way to paint your opponent as undeserving of human rights.

Whether it's been slavery or the Holocaust or any other injustice against different groups of people, it's always about taking away their humanity. They always use language to de-humanize before committing whatever atrocity.