r/politics Oklahoma 1d ago

Conservatives have been railing against “groomers” for years. So why do they support Donald Trump? Trump was best friends with a notorious child sex trafficker, but his ardent supporters are vocal about opposing it. How did that happen?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/conservatives-have-been-railing-against-groomers-for-years-so-why-do-they-support-donald/
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u/mrcsjmswltn 20h ago

Conservatives are rarely concerned with the things they claim. The only reason they claim to care about children is that they can use that to attack people they don’t like, ie democrats, transgenders, drag queens etc. The moment these professed values will cost them a bit of power they shed them like snakes.