I'll try to keep it as short as I can.. Whenever I talk to conservatives, nationalists, traditionalists or whatever you want to call them regarding the governments role in society, we typically agree on cutting or stopping increases in a lot of welfare programs (mainly ones benifiting minorities mostly), stopping affirmative action, gun rights etc.

But when bringing up cutting military spending, wealth redistribution between states, getting rid of tariffs, legalizing drugs, cutting social security and medicare completely etc, (I guess you could say interfering in the white working class' benifits) well.. they completely push back and are all about a strong massive government getting involved in other people's lives.

It's easy to write it off as them, similar to the Alt-right, just wanting their own group to have a monopoly on benifits.. but I suspect there could be a deeper reasoning behind this that us more libertarian leaning people miss. Could any self identifying conservatives give an explaination or just correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers!