Agreed.
Honestly, there a deep unpopularity among conservatives for the Founding Fathers, and in some quarters there is even an animosity for the Founding Fathers.
I can’t be the only one who sees it. And I don’t mean GenZ. Among BoomerCons, among GenXcons, and even older conservatives still alive - though the oldest are the most likely to be pro-Founder. Millennials are in the same category, there’s no interest whatsoever for the Founding.
I think I even make people upset with the way I have chosen to revive the works of the Founders. The big government attitude is much, much more pervasive. It is what I see anyways. I think people want the Founding to be dead and keep it dead in favor of a much more dictatorial government just not a “progressive” dictatorial government.
The progressives’ project to get rid of the Founders has been a resounding success across all generations. We bought it and its a popular seller, the shelves are bare. They can’t keep it in stock.
I agree.
LBJ-Nixon centralize what was previously de-centralized in welfare, education, immigration, and other areas.
In the Reagan era many Republicans wanted to de-centralize. In 1994 the Moral Majority-Christian Coalition captured the conservative brand to centralize abortion. Trent Lott and then Denny Hastert led the RINOs to retain centralization of everything else. Then it became the fad to centralize even further immigration even further than Nixon’s centralization.
Now de-centralizing education and DOGE have some support. But everything else is a big centralized right wing “answer” to a big centralized left wing “answer”.