Not conservatives, not GOP.
I'm amazed that this obliterated narrative keeps getting brought up. NO, conservatives pick issues only with their hearts, not with their heads.
The idea of the GOP being the party of law and order, science, and cold analysis got dragged out to wood shed and gang raped by Reagan, Newt, and the Costco Republicans.
Universal pre-k pays for itself, increases GDP, reduces crime, and host of other societal issues... Nope can't have that
Sex Ed reduces abortion and pays for itself... Nope
School lunches, nope
Funding education, nope pfffft - who wants an educated workforce? Commies that's who!
Preventative healthcare, nope
Support for Veterans, fuck those losers, nope
Climate denial, that won't cost us anything, right?
Infrastructure reinvestment, nope
Immigration, lulz talk to farmers in Florida to see how that's going. Whilst simultaneously complaining about demographic collapse / population decline in the US
Tell me again how cold calculating engineers used science and math to formulate policies that ignore the world and scientists around them.