[BlackElk]

Kirk converted to Roman Catholicism late in life, demonstrating that he was, indeed a devotee of "the permanent things" using his terminology. Kirk would be joined by most conservatives in not accepting Mr. Bluster as a conservative, nor is Mr. Bluster's frame of mind or his "culture" conservative in any cognizable way.

What on earth does TRUMP!!! have in common with Russell Kirk, Bill Buckley, Bill Rusher, Frank Meyer, Will Herberg, James Burnham, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, Thomas Sowell, Ronald Reagan, or Jack Kemp?

[Ohioan]

You lump together a bunch of Conservatives, who did not support the same litmus tests. For example, although he served as the publisher for Buckley’s National Review, Rusher called me on a matter in the 1970s, which strongly convinces me that he would have endorsed Trump, this time around. (I will not get into the details, because they go to particular political alliances at the time, and would not be germane to the particular issues today—but might be used by the Leftist lurkers to create faux issues.)