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by Nullabillity 475 days ago
Fundamentally, conservatism is about conserving (and reinforcing) existing power structures. Everything else is just set dressing.
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Conservatives are currently dismantling the Federal bureaucracy, not conserving it.
The federal bureaucracy isn't the power structure, it's a threat to the power structure, hence it being dismantled by the power structure.
In order to conserve (well, further entrench) the power of the oligarchy.