Is Trump the First “European-conservative” American Presidential Candidate?

American Prophet.org ^ | February 1, 2016 | Selwyn Duke

[ifinnegan]

I like that kind of stuff.

Do you happen to know if New Berlin Illinois was founded by German immigrants?

[BigEdLB]

New Minden, IL was. Some of my dads family was from the Minden area in Germany...

[ifinnegan]

My family are all very old time American. The lines we do know go back to Germany. Definitely a lot of German has been diluted out and melded with other backgrounds.

But my family has always said gesundheit.

[Albion Wilde]

liberalism and conservatism are not ideologies as much processes. Liberalism is the process of inexorably trying to change the status quo; conservatism is the process of trying to preserve the status quo. Thus, the actual positions the terms are seen as representing will vary depending on the status quo in question.

I disagree to an extent. I would say that

Conservatism aims to preserve values that are of lasting benefit while making incremental improvement;

Liberal/progressivism seeks to overthrow existing systems to achieve immediate gratification of special interests.

[SoConPubbie]

Well, first of all, he's not a conservative.

You can't support Abortion, and honestly call yourself a conservative.


JANUARY 2015

First he states he is in support of Abortion for Rape, Incest and Health of the Mother.

Then Trump was asked about a abortion by a woman being pregnant, and not from rape or incest, and Trump answered that it depends on how far along the baby is.

"It depends when"

INTERVIEWER: "So say a woman is pregnant, and it is not in any of those exceptions [rape/incest]categories, and she chooses to have an abortion"

TRUMP: "it depends when, it depends when"

YouTube Video of Interview

[Albion Wilde]

This is a most worthy article. It truly explains the dilemma before us:

1) There are not likely enough believers in the JudeoChristian Absolute even to predict, much less secure, a Cruz victory;

2) A Trump victory would be a victory for received JudeoChristian cultural values but not necessarily religous or social values based in the eternal Absolute;

3) But the latter would be preferable to a victory for the OneWorld relativists selling us out to the Islamist tyranny of a false absolute.

[Albion Wilde]

But he lost me when he began impugning Cruz' integrity and character and talking nice about Pelosi, Reid, McConnell and Schumer.

That's an easy one. He didn't "talk nice" about them; he "talked nice" about his own ability to get along with them. Critically important distinction, unless you want to continue the gridlock that has paralyzed Washington.

Even our Founders grappled with the issue of compromise. It is necessary at times to "make a deal" with our ideological oponents in order to move forward an inch rather than fall back a mile. It's very hard for the religious purists to understand how this works, which is rather like the difference between Direct Current and Alternating Current. The U.S. system is more like AC.

[Grampa Dave]

What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?

How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996

The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi

Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?

What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?

What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?

What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?

What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts

[lewislynn]

Pimping your own blog?

Sorry, you got the wrong number. There is no blog here.

[lewislynn]

I didn’t label him anything pal. I posted an article.

Retired? more like retarded. I was posting about the title. Most people responding to the article(s) reply to the #1 post...That would be you dimwit.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Excellent article.

[RetiredArmy]

Then direct it to the title ass wipe and not to me. Screw your crap about age punk. You couldn’t carry an older person jock strap with a big an ass as you are.

[RetiredArmy]

Yup. We out sourced all the jobs and then we out sourced the president’s office to a punk from Izzie land.

[Impy]

Sacre Bleu, a bit hard to read with all the @#$%*$ symbols.

[ek_hornbeck]

And it’s just as with a “hot” invasion: all other problems are put on the back burner when barbarians are at the gate. Have you ever seen a guy wringing his hands about his daughter’s sleazy boyfriend while home invaders are busting down his door?

Exactly. Fretting over social issues while we're being turned into a Third World country is like worrying about a dripping faucet while your house is being floated off its foundation by a flood. The same applies to those who put fiscal issues ahead of the national question. People don't seem to realize that if the Third World invasion of America and Europe continues, there won't be any free market left to defend or de-regulate. America's economy will be a Mexican-style Padrone system while Europe will be under Sharia law. Not much room for deregulating the financial services sector in either.