I don’t believe I’ve heard or read anybody saying populism is conservatism.
Conservatism is too far down the road to worry about now. Now we have to conquer communism and Islamism, by any means available, because the communist and the Islamists are using any means available to conquer us.
This guy talks like a fag and his s***’s all retarded.
Who are all these people piling on at this time? There’s a fox in the hen house. You know it when they use the word “cult “ as in group think. The right is like herding cats and I like the independence of that. If everyone chants the same slogan, I’m outta here.
What have conservatives actually conserved ?
They used the lead to get to the tariffs and how they failed. Well they didn’t. Since the tariffs started:
Suspended rare earth export controls: China delayed its new export licensing regime for rare earth elements and related technologies.
Resumed U.S. agricultural purchases: China agreed to buy a minimum of 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually for the next three years and lifted retaliatory tariffs on other U.S. agricultural products.
Agreed to combat fentanyl: China pledged to crack down on the flow of chemicals used to make fentanyl into the United States.
Ended retaliatory actions: China ceased other recent retaliatory actions against U.S. companies and lifted retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
Relaxed semiconductor trade restrictions: China agreed to relax some export controls on semiconductors and resume trade for semiconductor production.
Think they would have done this on their own?
wy69
They used the lead to get to the tariffs and how they failed. Well they didn’t. Since the tariffs started:
Suspended rare earth export controls: China delayed its new export licensing regime for rare earth elements and related technologies.
Resumed U.S. agricultural purchases: China agreed to buy a minimum of 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually for the next three years and lifted retaliatory tariffs on other U.S. agricultural products.
Agreed to combat fentanyl: China pledged to crack down on the flow of chemicals used to make fentanyl into the United States.
Ended retaliatory actions: China ceased other recent retaliatory actions against U.S. companies and lifted retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
Relaxed semiconductor trade restrictions: China agreed to relax some export controls on semiconductors and resume trade for semiconductor production.
Think they would have done this on their own?
wy69
Just what is conservatism? Ask ten people and you’ll get ten different answers.
Stopped reading at croaky
Why is Charlie Kirk mentioned in the headline? Maybe that “Kirk” is referring to Capt. Kirk. I didn’t see anything relating to either of them in the article — maybe I missed it.
Croaky? I would never take advice from someone named Croaky.
I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
Whoever said that no tarriffs are the bedrock of conservatism.
Trump did first rate job of explaining that in the first 100 years of America’s existence it was a high tarriff country—with no income taxes. That enabled the USA industry to ward off the better british industrialists through the 19th century.
Then when US industry became more competitive than the british industrialists—the switched policies to become a low tarriff country.
Now that so many countries have better industries than the US—its best for the US to revert to being a high tarriff country so as to nurture the growth of the US industries.
Big deal.
No conservatism needed. Just common sense. Thank you very much.
This is not a criticism of you, TPM.
I disliked this article wholly. Of course Populism is not Conservatism, and the author seems fully invested in the notion that the Trump Presidency is all populism and no substance.
This person who wrote it sounds like a weak-kneed wimp who is going to cave at the first hint of pushback and run to the rear. These people who have taken over our country, robbed it of industry, infected it with DEI, CRT, and Affirmative Action did not do this overnight.
It took them decades to do it. And that destruction was nearly complete in 2024. This attempt to reclaim our country from those people is not going to be done overnight. It isn't going to be perfect. These evil people who have infested society at all levels, not just the government aren't going to raise their hands and surrender as they walk out the door saying "You got me."
They are burrowed in like ticks, and rooting them out and eliminating their influence and policies is going to take years, if not decades.
And it isn't going to all go in one direction...ours. That mindset is stupid, asinine, juvenile, and weak. There are going to be victories and losses. We will go through times of one step forward, one or two steps back. I won't be perfect, it won't be clean, and mistakes will be made.
People who write articles like this can exercise their free speech and spew blather as long as they don't get in the damn way.
I’ll take populism over RINO-ism any day of the week.
I’m tired of the useless quislings that call themselves republicans, that claim to be conservatives, refusing to even lift a finger to counter the evil that is today’s democrat party.
Most Republicans are but modern day Whigs. Useless, pretend opposition to the destruction of our constitutional republic.
"Intellectual conservatism" used to be all about quoting Burke and not about getting anything done. It was the "designated loser" in political debates, as people say about McCain and Romney. If you have Congress and the presidency, sure, you can be "restrained" but you have to be more than that. You have to actually do something, not repeat the same tired cant. I don't know what tactical shorts have to do with anything, but I do hope the writer's experience wasn't too traumatic.
Neither are these Neocons.
Populism is not conservatism, and this is not a good article.
What a moronic stament, especially considering that I have never heard anyone claim that populism was conservaive.
In fact, the Democrat Socailist have started a left wing of the popul;ism movement. Which onl y proves that popilism is not really the MAGA movement. It's a n America first ,ovement. A movement that places its citizens considerations about all other considerations. That might ne considered nationalistic, but just because it has gained popularity, does not make it a populist movement.
If one wants to call it a populist movement, than it must be considered a nationalistic populist movement, while the left's popuulism movement is an anit-nationalistic movement.
So, TBP, state which movement that you support. Only a nation united stands, a divivded nation falls, and the only united movement is the MAGA American First movement, period. All other movements desire to see this nation destroyed.
That guy sure likes to hear himself talk gibberish.
I could immediately tell the type of nauseating stench this article was going to expel simply based upon the play of words by the author of the article. So talentless that they result to spoonerism.