"I would like nothing better than to see the US return to the Monroe/T Roosevelt doctine and begin over the coming years to extricate ourselves from the rest of the world and concentrate on the western hemisphere. No matter who we elect in the next 50 years that will not happen."
It's negative thinking like that which will ensure it won't happen. Buck up!
"Yes he is the lesser of evils you might say, but he is much much ... much lesser than the alternative"
Conservatism has a dialectic of its own. A people cannot become truly conservative unless they have an oppresive liberalism (i.e. socialism) to react against. Change comes through this contradiciton. I believe Hegel called it "heightening the contradictions". Or as that great philosopher Steve Miller put it" "you have to go through hell before you get to Heaven."
One thing wrong with this and what I read in your earlier post. World history has demonstrated that once a nation descends into socialism it is an abyss from which there is no bloodless escape. Why do you think the democrats push gun control so hard. To keep us safe? No, once we are disarmed thay can have their way with us. As for socialism, to quote Lenin "The purpose of socialism is communism".