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Has Conservatism Outlived Its Usefulness?
Crisis Magazine ^ | June 24, 2025 | Frank DeVito

Posted on 06/24/2025 5:30:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob

No. Conservatism has outlived its redefinition.


21 posted on 06/24/2025 6:59:09 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: DoodleBob
"reek of a Superiority Complex"

That is the very heart and soul of liberals / progs. They know exactly how you should live your life. It ends with the Soviets and their "New Soviet Man" where they were going to cast out all old values and build a "new man" with progressive values. Murdering tens of millions was just a speed bump.

The Soviet effort to create the New Soviet Man was an ideological campaign to transform individuals into ideal communist citizens who embodied socialist values, collectivism, and devotion to the state. It began after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and was rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology.

Key Features of the New Soviet Man


Sounds like the libs and progs, no?
22 posted on 06/24/2025 7:02:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: DoodleBob

“But what, precisely, a conservative is trying to conserve is not always clear”

Answer: Western Civilization.

The Left wants to destroy it..


23 posted on 06/24/2025 7:26:16 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Whenever a muslim murders a Christian, it’s the Jews’ fault! - Nitzy, 6/22/25)
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To: DoodleBob

.....As Russell Kirk noted, social conservatism (and really there is no other kind).

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Absolutely 100% Correct.


24 posted on 06/24/2025 7:38:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: DoodleBob

This is who the NAACP is.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/national-association-for-the-advancement


25 posted on 06/24/2025 7:52:05 PM PDT by Palmettojones
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To: DoodleBob

I heal savage (who I can not listen to more then two minutes) has it defined simply as “Border, language, and culture.”

It doesn’t have to be complicated.


26 posted on 06/24/2025 8:14:05 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DoodleBob

Conservatives killed themselves as they never knew how to fight in the gutter and learn to win.


27 posted on 06/24/2025 8:23:36 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: DoodleBob

Sure. Talk of free trade and a borderless world is dead. We have to rebuild our own industries. The Cold War is over and just what the “Free World” is isn’t as clear as we once thought it was. We also have to recognize that today’s Americans aren’t what they once were. The “minimal state” isn’t coming back.

On the other hand, we are going to have to cut the debt and the deficit. We are going to have to cut government spending like conservatives said they always wanted to (but never got around to doing), but the spirit’s different now than it was. “National Review” isn’t going to be leading the way.


28 posted on 06/24/2025 8:53:13 PM PDT by x
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To: DoodleBob

Pure unmitigated garbage!

Communist-inspired drivel...


29 posted on 06/24/2025 9:09:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Theophilus

Good one.

I’d break out in song but I don’t want to wake up my cat.


30 posted on 06/24/2025 9:14:34 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: DoodleBob

Alleged “visibility on FR” only demonstrates Pew’s ability to stoke prejudices.


31 posted on 06/24/2025 10:09:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 9YearLurker

Tucker is drinking the left’s kool aid so he can stay relevant.

He seems to have forgitten hiw radicals assaulted his home at night when he ws absent and his wife and children alone.

No one talks abiout the obvious loberal fascism that conservatives have bridled successfully.

Some of these people like Tuckerseem to forget that the left and democrats create conservatives with their use of violence and aggression.

Being Conservative is a necessary defense mechanism for those who value freedom. Thankfully we are an 80% majority.


32 posted on 06/25/2025 2:22:39 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Candor7

Surely you don’t see getting dragged into Bibi’s wars as “conservative”?


33 posted on 06/25/2025 2:26:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DoodleBob

bump


34 posted on 06/25/2025 2:09:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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