Put this in your 'retreaded' noob pipe and smoke it! If the FC is 'fake conservatism', then WTP have NO conservatives in office.
There are a few who rebel, some more than others, like Congressman Massie and Senator Paul from Kentucky.
But I don’t see conservatism in symbolism like government contractors doing big government work like education for the Republicans while unionized employees do big government work for the Democrats like education.
You still have big government education plus so so much more like this going on and a deep national debt.
All that debt leaves the USA beholden to foreign countries that have money like the Arab-Muslim ones that back the Arab Spring-Civil War and hatred of Russia by default.