But most "conservatives" ARE the enemy. They want Trump to fail for purely phallic-victory reasons, plus many of them, especially the professional ones, want amnesty, "free trade," and even Obamacare, because they make more money and function better as an opposition party. I realized this when I learned that the Freedom Caucus had basically gotten everything they demanded from Trump, but then at the last minute they sabotaged the vote in a way that could only have one intention: embarrassing the President and making the vote fail. Otherwise, why didn't they go back and demand more stuff during the negotiations? Why did they lead the President to believe their votes were secure? They didn't know what was in the bill until the day before the vote? I don't think so. And even then, why not go directly to the President, which they had an open invitation for, and sort it out?
Ideological Conservatism IS the enemy because, at the end of the day, it is not what any of us were told it is. Most of us are natural "conservatives" in a purely patriotic sense. We have a lot of this ideology integrated into us for purely tribalistic reasons. But the people moving and shaking the conservative movement are not nationalists of any sort. They believe in an utopian economic religion that can only work and function as an opposition party, or a party that has, at best, one or two issues, and none of those issues involve anything America is actually suffering from. Just look at Ted Cruz defending Chinese manufacturing on the debate stage. These people are tone death.
If "conservatism" is to survive, it is going to need a significant overhaul, and it must be substantially nationalistic and guided by common sense. The neurotic people posing as our thought-leaders and politicians are out there right now adopting babies from the third world and learning to speak Chinese.
I thought Trump assured us there was no problem.