If Trump wins the nomination, I won’t say conservatism will die in America, but it will set the movement back. People who “self identify as conservatives” will be completely discredited: they will be exposed as having no foundation for their beliefs.
Conservatism makes absolutely no sense when there isn’t a systematic philosophy to ground it. We really are just reactionaries if we’re not grounded in truth. We’re just fuddy duddies who oppose the cultural evolution that will sweep us into utopia.
Exactly.
Conservatism in itself has no real Ideology or Philosophy behind it even going back to Edmund Burke.
When people try to define Conservatism they borrow from Libertarianism and Free Market Capitalism.
Conservatism really seems to be against things but never really offers a compelling alternative.
I think in Trump we see practical politics at work, the commons sense and logical. Right now that may be what this country needs.
They will also be a laughing stock and so will the Republican party for being so gullible as to fall so hard for the patriotic spiel of a self-promoted celebrity billionaire showman with ZIP political record or experience who was a registered Democrat only six years prior.
In retrospect, it will be, "What in hell were they thinking???"
That is, unless people muster the courage to look truth square-on during the next 12 months. Then they will make smarter, better choices.