We American conservatives are opposed to “cruel and unusual punishments” such as crucifixion, breaking on the wheel, and the sorts of things that go on in Muslim lands, beheading, chopping off of hands for theft, etc. Iranians are quite the barbarians in this respect. On the other hand, conservatives are opposed to the valorization and canonization of thugs, the defunding of police, the elimination of cash bail and all the other things that contemporary Democrats and other destructive leftists do to make the world worse than it is. We conservatives take a sane and reasonable position, a truly moderate one midway between the extremes. We are the moderates by any sane and historically-based standard.