That's the entire thing now. Just fuck liberals. No matter what the issue is, fuck liberals. If liberals want sensible regulations, they will be opposed. If conservatives suggest the exact same ones, they'll be fine with it. If the Liberals cave and give the Conservatives exactly what they want, they'll still oppose it because it'll be signed by a Liberal president, which is a Liberal accomplishing something, and therefore conflicts with "Fuck Liberals." They will fuck Liberals if it costs them freedoms, the lives of their children, the stability of their government, and the habitability of their biosphere.
That's all mainstream conservatism is anymore here and frankly it should be roundly mocked and derided at every opportunity for that. This complete non-ideology is why political issues here can comprehensively not be resolved, because one side's entire driving force is fucking over the other.
But that’s communism! You bureaucrats can’t tell me what to do! (You may think I am straw-manning but this is based on real, actual conversations that I have had with real, actual people in rural California. There is a terrible brain rot that has ossified in “conservative” culture in rural America and at this point I don’t think anything can actually be done about it. These people will happily burn to death with an ignorant smile on their face.