[cowboyusa]

The only thing Conservatism conserverved was American decline. Reagan and Trump are Jacksonian Maga.

[nwrep]

The only thing Conservatism conserved was American decline.

So true. For too many decades, it was too focused on foreign policy and not enough on domestic policy, where we were losing ground. Perhaps these were the exigencies of the times, but I also fault Reagan for too much of a FP focus, and not enough about how the seeds of institutional decline and rot were being sowed stateside.