>>54688724Ok, so more populist than conservative then. There can be allowances for that.
>>54684209>>54688804>Tight on immigration is a core conservative principle.Sure, but that's single issue, not whole package.
>Conservatism is great but we need someone put a wrecking ball through this den of vipers called the establishment.Agreed with the tactics of this last part too, but then
>We'll get back to conservatism when the Republican principles are validated. Right off the rails. This is Bush's abandonment of free market principles to save the free market system. Started with
>Conservatism is great but W pushed this line too. Conservatism was great, but we had to put a modifying word before that and be "compassionate," because (by deduction) conservatism was inherently not compassionate. It was heartless, and cruel, just as the left says. And so we had to start incorporating their solutions and funding the same stuff the left does to greater levels to show just how compassionate we really were.
And whoa, look. We weren't really conservative at all any more, we were just being snookered into pulling the lever for a Rockefeller Republican, hidden behind a war.
Nothing in Trump's background or speechifying assures me that he will ever attempt to validate conservative principles, excepting those areas where his populism crosses with conservative positions.
>We need to show unity like the libfucks nowThe libfucks are unified by the leadership principle, because they no longer have agency within their own party. They follow their media, which is directed by their intelligentsia. They're mindless, lever-pulling drones. It's not admirable.
And--more to the point--they're losing more ground the more they double down on implementation of the same .
On the other hand, the right is intellectually vibrant, and is where the course of the country is up for debate.
