The media made a lot of confusing mess because of definitions ...
Republican(ism), Conservatism, Populism, Americanism, etc.
I tried to read a couple of intelligently composed articles here in FreeRepublic that attempted to sort the whole thing out and my head started swimming in the same reminiscent confusion of communism, fascism, socialism, Fabianism ...
Ahhhh let's call the whole thing off
Life was so much easier when we had Norman Rockwell speak tomes of understanding without writing a word !
Don’t worry about the -isms just remember the clean never rubs off on the dirty.