Posted on 02/02/2017 10:31:27 AM PST by billorites
To ask the question is to answer it. No. Conservatives had no proposals for radical change. Conservatives have been fighting at best a rearguard retreat since RR. We didn't need to turn and fight another war of attrition. We need to move 1000 miles to the right, and march forward along another axis entirely freed from both liberal oppostion and the baggage of so-called conservative so-called friends.
That is what Trump has done and he is marching at high speed in a new direction where no one can figure out where he is, where he is going, much less what they need to do to get out in front and stop him - as if anyone should even want to stop him. We have too much lost ground to make up.
You should be aware of the tribal nature of humans. We coan only really “know” about 150 others. (Dunbar’s number). You obviously relate to the <= 150 you ‘know’
Grow the F up !
we can
The gentleman is a credit to our country and our cause.
Early on, when people were bickering about “Trump isn’t really conservative,” it seemed obvious to me that he was the only candidate who was proposing that the United States should continue to exist. That made him the ONLY conservative in my eyes.
To blame the wreckage of neocons on that great man is a slander. For instance, Paul Wolfowitz was not a student of Strauss's. He attended two of his lecture courses and the notion that neoconservatism somehow follows from Strauss's views and teaching is pretty soundly rejected.
And virtually everything you write about Strauss's students and followers is belied by the writings of the great Harry Jaffa or Allan Bloom for that matter.
I would like to associate myself with your words regarding Michael Anton.
That is a great article. I am jealous of his ability to write so well, and also that he was able to study under Harry Jaffa, a man whose conservative stands were defended by WF Buckley on many occasions.
You are no slouch, good sir.
While that was important, I disagree that it was the most important. The most important was that Trump had a message to get out - and that message was that things have to change a lot, change now, and I know how to get shit done and change them.
It's the getting shit done (and I am deliberately using profanity here because leaders trying to get stuff done swear a lot to move things along - Patton) where conservatives have been missing the boat for so long. They thought it was all about a philosophical argument with the left, when it was about power to do stuff. Alinsky was about getting power to do stuff that his followers wanted to get done. Conservatives were about stopping that. Nothing more. Just stopping that. And so, inch by inch, yard by yard, bill by bill, regulation by regulation conservatives lost the war of attrition they could not win.
Trump reversed that by being about getting power to do stuff. The last two presidents like that were Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.
Between reading this guy and that other guy we were just introduced to, Gorsuch, I am overawed. Even if we accept the doubtful proposition that Trump can’t read himself, he clearly has found some folks to advise him who have excellent discrimination and can find superb writing.
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