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Rush is right. This isn't Trump's doing. I've seen increasing discontent from the conservative base for the Washington conservative establishment right here in this forum for at least the last 10 years. It is this phenomenon Ted Cruz hoped he could ride to the nomination until Trump pushed him aside.

Rush is also right that the people who write about American conservatism don't get this because they don't really understand it. But, as always, there are exceptions. In the last year some of the best insight about what is really going on has come from Peggy Noonan and James Taranto of the WSJ. The information is out there but the MSM don't want to see it.

Of course Rush is right. There is no cohesive "conservative movement," to begin with. There are an abundance of people who call themselves conservative, and who cluster together around various issues, but who constantly disagree and fight with others. Simply peruse this thread to see for yourself, "conservatives " can't agree on anything.

Go back to primary season, and see the bloodbath here among self-described "conservatives" bashing each other and each others candidates. It is ridiculous. The end result of this internecine warfare has been, Romney2012 and Trump2016 nominations, after conservatives exhausted themselves and their band of candidates dropped by the wayide.