"Just a conservative at heart"

Neo-neocon takes note of Reuters calling Iran's fascist ruler Khameini a "conservative,"

In calling Khameini and his ilk “conservatives” in this article, I think Reuters’ intent was the intent I’ve seen a lot on the left, which is to tarnish as many bad governments as possible with the “conservative” or “on the right” brush (for example, Nazis, although they had the word “Socialist” in their name). All such governments are more correctly defined as statist however, which puts them squarely in the same territory in which the left resides, if you use the collectivist/individualist or statist/libertarian dimensions favored by many US conservatives when categorizing these things. There is absolutely nothing about someone like Khameini that is libertarian or human rights focused or small government promoting, and there is no question he does not favor the separation of church and state.

Just a conservative at heart, though.

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