[DouglasKC]

Good article...what many of the conservative establishment are failing to see is that Trump IS articulating conservative values in a way that is appealing, understandable and desirable. The trust the author refers to is that Trump really truly believes what he’s saying. That’s why he needs no scripts. No teleprompters.

[poconopundit]

Nicely put.

The article from HotGas truly is a spectacular piece.  It really explains what we've discovered in the last few days.

There are many great thoughts in the piece, but none more insightful than the one in its conclusion:

"...Con­ser­vatism is more than a set of bul­let points.  It is ulti­mately a form of trust, in peo­ple, and that, if left alone, they can man­age to get things right."

That truly is the essence of it all.  And if I may, I'd like to echo that with a couple other quotes from other American conservatives because it really is very powerful.

William F. Buckley Jr.

"...I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate.  Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.  Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue, and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.  In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering."

H. L. Mencken

Quod est Veritas?  I know the answer no more than Pilate did.  But this, at least, I have observed in forty-five years: that there are men who search of it, whatever it is, wherever it may lie, patiently, honestly, with due humility, and that there are other men who battle endlessly to put it down, even though they don't know what it is.  To the first class belong the scientists, the experimenters, the men of curiosity.  To the second belong the politicians, bishops, professors, mullahs, tin-pot messiah, frauds and exploiters of all sorts — in brief, the men of authority.

My inclination, I suspect, makes me lean heavily in favor of the former. I am, as the phrase is, prejudiced in their favor.  They fall, now and then, into grevious errors, but in their fall there is still something creditable, something that takes away all shame.  What fetches them is the common weakness of humanity, imperfectly made by a God whose humor has been greatly underestimated.  They have, at least, the virtue of fairness.  And that of courage.  Unhorsed, they pick themselves up and try again.  They do not call for the police.