Posted on 12/24/2016 7:44:29 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore
. . . I have been thinking about Gavin lately because his life and thought so perfectly capture the conservatism of Donald Trump. When you read Gavin, you begin to understand that the idea of Trump as a conservative is not oxymoronic. Trump is a conservative—of a particular type that is rare in intellectual circles. His conservatism is ignored or dismissed or opposed because, while it often reaches the same conclusions as more prevalent versions of conservatism, its impulses, emphases, and forms are different from those of traditionalism, anti-Communism, classical liberalism, Leo Strauss conservatism in its East and West Coast varieties, the neoconservatism of Irving Kristol as well as the neoconservatism of William Kristol, religious conservatism, paleo-conservatism, compassionate conservatism, constitutional conservatism, and all the other shaggy inhabitants of the conservative zoo.
Trump has always been careful to distinguish himself from what he calls “normal conservative.” He has defined a conservative as a person who “doesn’t want to take risks,” who wants to balance budgets, who “feels strongly about the military.” It is for these reasons, he said during the campaign, that he opposed the Iraq war: The 2003 invasion was certainly risky, it was costly, and it put the troops in a dangerous position, defending a suspicious and resentful population amid IEDs and sniper attacks. The Iraq war, in this view, is an example of conservative writers and thinkers and politicians following trains of logic or desire to un-conservative conclusions.
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Most importantly, by distancing himself from Conservatives early on, the dems who crossed over for him weren’t skeered off that he was a ‘right-winger’.
That was a critical assurance he needed to make, and them to believe.
No. Trump IS a classic Conservative in most every way. Especially on trade, immigration and taxes.
Yes, but he didn’t *run* that way, you only saw it if you were conservative.
Zero didn’t run as a commie muslim America-last white-guy-hater for a reason, and deceived enough working class whites to vote for him.
Street corner conservatism is most distinctive when set against the conservatism of the Beltway. Economists, for example, can explain in minute detail the efficiencies gained when the supply of labor is global and therefore limitless. They can point to highly sophisticated quantitative models that describe how consumers benefit from the global supply chain and from the offshoring of low wage employment. It all works so well in theory. What the economists are too quick to dismiss, however, is the first word in the old subject of political economy. They prefer not to recognize—or, in some cases, they celebrate outright—the erosion of nationhood by lax enforcement of border controls and immigration policy.
Homosexuals stole the word “gay” for their own devious purposes. So to have gloBULList NWO Free Traders stolen the word “Conservative”
“Indeed, Trump was so at variance with the mainstream of the intellectual conservative movement on these issues that he modified his political identity. “I really am a conservative,” he said last February. “But I’m also a commonsense person. I’m a commonsense conservative. We have to be commonsense conservatives. We have to be smart.” Common sense in this understanding is opposed to the theoretical and academic analysis that has led conservatives to nonsensical and unpopular positions because they are beholden to speculative conclusions or to creedal dogma.”
Conservative Orthodoxy has become a filthy whore to be shunned by all, and the Republican Party is her pimp.
So corrupt and degraded she has lost even her will to survive.
You don’t have to be a doctrinaire conservative to be conservative. That is what the never Trumpers did not understand. You only have to have common sense... Everything costs money, you get what you pay for, people make the best decisions for themselves, cows have been farting for a million years...
Trump has lived, and achieved, in the real world. He has real world experience.
It’s the difference between someone talking about doing a thing and someone who has actually done it. Someone who has actually done it has sharper instincts and knows that often you have to think outside the box.
Where as your typical politician follows the same formula because “it’s how it’s done”
Not to mention their whole precious political career is on the line.
Conservatism without Nationalism is like Faith without Works.
This is the best analysis of the Trump “revolution” written since his announcement in June, 2015.
Just know, we Deplorables are hated by both the left and the right.
Just was we hate them both.
“What is it that we want?
I’ll tell you.
We want America.”
Street Corner Conservatism=America First
“What is it that we want?
I’ll tell you.
We want America.”
Street Corner Conservatism=America First
Nothing will survive without traditional values.
I once told someone, during the campaign, that I didn't want to "Make America Great Again" as much as I wanted to "Make America 'America' Again."
Of course, the acronym 'MAGA' is better, and as far as I can see, the two statements are practically synonymous.
Yes, it’s true. We want to make America America again. And only a fellow patriot can understand what that means.
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