• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago
    , or to restore traditional ones
    

    Nope, that’s regression. Easy mistake to make when everyone calling themselves conservative for the past half century have actually been regressive.

    Isn’t that reactionary/reactionism?

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      Nope, being reactionary means that your actioned and/or opinions are reactions to the actions/opinions of others rather than proactive ie what others react to.

      Being regressive, on the other hand, means wanting to regress to a previous state, such as wanting to roll back social progress or otherwise return to how things used to be.

      MAGA being a classic example of revisionist regressive ideology pretending that everything was better back when minorities and other vulnerable groups of people didn’t have as many/any rights.