There is no empirical basis for your claim.
There are no Conservative Presidents who have done the criteria you describe as necessary.
I am fed up with hypothetical conservatism that pretends there is a perfect conservative coming to power somewhere. Reagan was no such person, nor is Bush. This is just cantankerous personal attitudes parading as some sort of virtue.
I do not see it.
I am fed up with hypothetical conservatism that pretends there is a perfect conservative coming to power somewhere. Reagan was no such person, nor is Bush. This is just cantankerous personal attitudes parading as some sort of virtue.
I do not see it.
The point is that if we don't incessantly demand it, we will NEVER get a president who does practice real conservatism. We can't give passes to half-hearted or even out-and-out fake conservatives and expect anything to get better or become more conservative. If we don't actually care about making things more conservative then we ought to just say so and stop pretending that we DO want things to be more conservative. But I for one do actually WANT our leadership and government to become more conservative, and, that being so, I have no choice but to continue hammering that home every chance I get.
We don't get good government by just sitting back and accepting their flaws. We have to continually push them to become better---even when we have politicians who are already pretty good like Reagan was. "Iron sharpens iron."