FreeRepublic.com
The Tea Party Movement
Breitbart.com and few others along that line.
Here is a list from the article of the supposed but now supposedly discarded "Core Conservatives", the "Movement Conservatives":
Bill Kristol
George Will
Tom Nichols of The Federalist
John Ziegler
Max Boot longtime WSJ writer
Erick Erickson
James Kirchick
Peter Wehner
Richard Hanna
Mike Treiser
Craig Snyder
Charles Fried
Steve Deace
Charles Sykes
Kyle Foley
Now we are a pretty savvy bunch here at FR. We have known for a long time that Bill Kristol and George Will were never, ever on our side. As to the rest of this list I know almost nothing and I'm betting that would be the position of most Freepers.
And these were the "leaders of the conservative movement".
No they weren't.
They never were.
We were.
We are.
But an excellent article nevertheless. So thanks again for posting.
The conservative movement is doing just fine with Publius Decius Mus aka Michael Anton working now in the white house with Banon.
Bill Kristol
George Will
Tom Nichols of The Federalist
John Ziegler
Max Boot longtime WSJ writer
Erick Erickson
James Kirchick
Peter Wehner
Richard Hanna
Mike Treiser
Craig Snyder
Charles Fried
Steve Deace
Charles Sykes
Kyle Foley
What is the one thing that unites all these men on this list? They all fully support homosexual marriage and unlimited immigration.
Tell me again, who are the conservatives? It sure ain’t them.
I agree with you about your list. I seldom turned to those people. They may have been conservatives in the sense that they were not liberal Democrats, but they had little influence on me and my ideas of conservatism.
In the past, I understood contemporary American conservatism as a merging of economic conservatives and social conservatives. I’m an economic conservative. I’ve never been hostile to social conservatives.
If I’m not mistaken, Trump has brought manufacturing Democrats into the fold. I support blue-collar Americans, as much as any other group of working Americans.
I don’t confuse labor with unions. There is a lot of non-union labor, and I don’t like the coercive elements that are built into unionism. And while manufacturing is good, it is not better. It is not some sort of sainted employment.
Those who think America is here to provide them with manufacturing (or union) jobs, are no better IMO, than those who think America is here to provide them with a job teaching English as a second language.
I think high corporate taxes, environmental extremism, unions, bad trade deals, and other mistakes have taken their toll on America, and perhaps especially on US manufacturing. While I think American labor should have to compete with foreign labor, I don’t think this competition should take place on US soil. Immigration laws should be enforced and visas scaled back.
The point of the preceding paragraph is that there are many things that should be done that will have the effect of helping labor. That is the effect, not the direct intent. Policies that intend to help labor often do so at someone else’s expense and are usually wrong-headed.