It really isn't a conservative (beginning to hate that word, the way it is used to beat up each other) movement. It's an us versus them movement. People on the left, center and right are fed up with the political establishment that has so screwed up our country.
Palin's speeches ever since the 2008 election have been all about taking on the crony capitalism of the powers that be and defeating them. She sees Trump as the best vehicle to do that at this time. In my book, taking on the establishment is a very conservative thing to do.
Everyone and their mother claims to be a “Conservative”, its meaningless. Its a lot harder to claim to be a Nationalist, while flooding the border with Mexicans and h1-b1 slave wagers.
It sure beats electing impotent Tea Partiers to congress.
Trump is the only person out there who could actually upset the apple cart. This of course pisses off everyone with an agenda on both sides.
Many people who have gone along with the conservative line have done it mostly on the basis that the republican party is more inline with pro-american values. So the movement has always been in part nationalistic, IMO.
Yet on the very same day, Trump is trumpeting crony capitalism by wanting to expand the ethanol mandate... The very definition of crony capitalism. Why, because he calculates he’ll get more votes... Not because it is the right thing to do - because it clearly isn’t.
So I guess the idea is the ends justify the means. A little crony capitalism here or there is required to stop the really big crony capitalism elsewhere...
Thank about that for a moment.
Exactly right upsdriver. It really is that simple, that clear and yet, people just have to make it complicated!
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been saying this for years! At town halls 8 years ago, I was stating this exact same thing - it’s devolved into an us vs. them and that is the simple reality.
And the damn ‘establishment’ is none to happy to keep people tethered to that juvenile concept of it being this candidate vs. that one and then hillary vs. whoever.
These power hungry money grubbin freaks have this gig nailed down to a ‘T’.