Don't worry, conservatives still have Kid Rock, that dude from Staind, Gene Simmons, and Ted "shit himself to avoid the draft" Nugent. Truly the best of the best, huh?

My conservative, Trump supporting uncle listens to Bob Dylan and Neil Young and doesn't see the irony

I remember back in the mid 2000s when they latched on to the Dixie Chicks' pop country music as being 'wholesome conservative music'. And then their very vocal rage when the Dixie Chicks publicly dissed W.

That was pretty funny. Not quite on a level of 'freedom fries' funny, or 'buying expensive French wine only to pour it down the drain in protest' funny. But it wasn't too far off.

You know, I just realized that Hitler failing to get into art school is so much deeper of a joke than I realized.

Dude was an authoritarian. Artists are pretty universally anti authority. You could say it was his lack of skill to get into art school, or his education, or a whole bunch of things. Or you can say Hilter was already anti-artist, why would an art school educate that?

They got both types of music. Country and Western.

Nope Taylor Swift and The Chicks are bringing in pop country too.

This being "the left can't meme" adjacent, my favorite one to pull out in this type of discussion is "name one successful right-wing comedian."

You should be generally safe with pop country, Christian rock, and post-00’s butt rock.

I have a counterpoint to Christian rock. The first album I bought at the Christian bookstore in the mid 90s, back when they had those "if you like [secular band], listen to [Christian band]" charts, was the Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy's Upbeats and Beatdowns. The first chorus on the first song destroyed my sheltered church kid brain:

West we must, in God we trust, lets rape lets kill lets steal

We can almost justify, anything we feel

As the Bush years set in and the fight for gay marriage and abortion caused increasing political reactions from the church, many of these lyrics I attribute to starting my journey to the margins of church culture, discovering Christian socialism, New Monasticism, and an eventual leadership role. I later left the church and religion for other reasons.

A lot of Christian rock is purely marketing though, bands that could be signed to major labels but found a Christian label willing to pay them. It's a huge industry. Contemporary Christian Music/CCM swallowed up a lot of the industry back when I was more engaged with it. Newsboys going worship represents this for anyone in the know here, basically a pretty quirky and idiosyncratic band turning in to the most bland and boring Christian music possible. Could maybe argue the same for early Reliant K who turned in to pretty mainstream post punk.

Why do they have the worst music, art, and comedians? The only ones I can think of over the past century are Wagner, HP Lovecraft, and Kelsey Grammer. The past 100 years has produced more culture than all of human history combined and multiplied. Of that ocean I can only come up with 3 names that might be remembered a century from now. Not sure about 2 of them.

Does anyone remember that Lee Greenwood song they used to play at every Fourth of July celebration in the 90s?