Context, context, context.

Hillary’s full quote: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.”

- I would hopefully agree, but I think that train has left the station. They are all deplorable now.

McAuliffe’s full quote: “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision,” McAuliffe said. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

- I agree, teachers are trained to teach. Parents can certainly participate but if they want to teach, they should home-school their own kids and not try to teach other people's kids.

Wiki: "Defund the police" is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources. Activists who use the phrase may do so with varying intentions… .”

- Again, I agree. Policing needs to be reimagined. Clearly what we are doing now is not working.

The bumper-sticker snippets that you gave as examples may have been incompletely and/or inelegantly stated but their context and content deserve a full hearing, not the brain-dead Republican reaction that reduces any possible coherent discourse into binary with-us or against-us nonsense. Bumper-sticker mentality begets bumper-sticker rationality.

Conservativism is the status-quo, or more so, regression.

“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” ― William F. Buckley

Today, Buckley’s status-quo conservatism would quaintly be considered quite out of touch with today’s “modern” conservative radicals. They are regressive in every sense of the word, and proudly so.