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American Conservatism Is Fiddling While Rome Burns
American Conservative ^ | July 30, 2020 | David Azzerad

Posted on 08/02/2020 5:09:24 AM PDT by C19fan

What is conservatism in America today? It’s hundreds of millions of dollars a year spent fiddling while Rome burns. It’s ideas with little to no consequence. It’s getting trampled all over by History, but while yelling Stop!

Conservatism is the seven cheers for capitalism and the deafening silence on demographic change, feminism, and corporate malfeasance. It’s the same tired cast of speakers blathering about limited government almost a century after the New Deal. It’s the platitudinous Reagan quotes and the worn-out Buckley anecdotes. It’s the mindless optimism and the childish exhortations—if something can’t go on forever, it won’t!

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If things turn out bad in November and the same ole guard, for example the Bushes and Cheneys, come out and reclaim power I am done. Let it burn.
1 posted on 08/02/2020 5:09:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Regardless of what happens in November the Lunatic Liberals will take power back again soon.....

If Trump wins, in 2024, the Republicans will trot out another Bush/McCain/Romney and all the never Trumpers will tell us they are the future....and the Democrats will win...

Trump has shown the Republican Party how to expand the base and grow the party, they will throw it all away and listen to the consultants....

If Trump loses in November, it will be an avalanche, the Never Trumpers will blame it all on Trump and the Democrats are going to do everything they can to ensure their power well into the future.....

We are headed for a showdown, how that turns out is anyone’s guess...


2 posted on 08/02/2020 5:14:30 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Communism was getting stamped out all over the globe back in the 80s-90s.

Took them a while, but it’s back and badder than ever. They are an invasive species.


3 posted on 08/02/2020 5:21:34 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: C19fan

“Same old cast...”

I know. Let’s go on a cruise! Ahoy!


4 posted on 08/02/2020 5:21:54 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: P.O.E.

Trump winning is obviously the best outcome in November especially if the Republicans can hold the Senate.

If that happens, Trump can continue the overhaul of the Federal Courts, maybe get 1-2 more Supreme Court picks and be a backstop to any control the Democrats have....


5 posted on 08/02/2020 5:25:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
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"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy."

--Chris Hedges

Shitlib rats would happily live in a corpse-strewn world lit only by fire as long as they are the ones in charge.

6 posted on 08/02/2020 5:34:13 AM PDT by Noumenon (The fight's on. Let's not lose.)
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If Trump wins, in 2024, the Republicans will trot out another Bush/McCain/Romney

I don't think so. There is a deep bench of young, GOP conservatives who will vie for the top spot and won't go gentle into that good night.

7 posted on 08/02/2020 5:34:36 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: Noumenon

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
—Chris Hedges

Shitlib rats would happily live in a corpse-strewn world lit only by fire as long as they are the ones in charge.

~~~~~~~

^ Nutshell ^


8 posted on 08/02/2020 5:36:44 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: srmanuel

Trump is leading the way. Many others have to step up not only on the national stage, but on local levels too.


9 posted on 08/02/2020 5:39:38 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Trump has shown the Republican Party how to expand the base and grow the party, they will throw it all away and listen to the consultants....

First time I heard about Parscale being replaced/demoted, they referred to his replacement as a "long time republican operative". The campaign has gotten a little lamer since then. Three months to go and they don't know where the rnc convention is going to be or what it's going to be like. Governors and Fauci won't let Trump have rallies. He could easily have one in SD. While he may not need to campaign there, many of us watch it on TV or the internet.

10 posted on 08/02/2020 5:39:53 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: Salvey

I hope you’re right, but I have not confidence in the Republican Party doing the right thing....


11 posted on 08/02/2020 5:41:07 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: P.O.E.

The local levels are the key. Look how the Rats have controlled cities and states for decades. Have to cut them off at the knees.


12 posted on 08/02/2020 5:47:23 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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If things turn out bad in November and the same ole guard, for example the Bushes and Cheneys, come out and reclaim power I am done.

Same here. I am a Conservative, and if the milquetoast GOP succeeds in sandbagging President Trump's re-election I am walking away. Not that it will matter. Once the commies are in power there will be no more elections anyway.

13 posted on 08/02/2020 5:56:46 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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There will be elections, just like North Korea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_North_Korea

Turnout will be 100%, and the party will win every time.

Each citizen will wear fly a Antifa or Black Lives Matter sign to show their solidarity with the fearless leader.

That is the plan of the enemy.

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”


14 posted on 08/02/2020 6:04:13 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: C19fan

It sounds like you’re already done.


15 posted on 08/02/2020 6:12:31 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Noumenon

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
—Chris Hedges

Brilliant.


16 posted on 08/02/2020 6:14:59 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: P.O.E.
Communism was getting stamped out all over the globe back in the 80s-90s. Took them a while, but it’s back and badder than ever.

Could this be the future of Conservatism?

17 posted on 08/02/2020 6:25:55 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Jane Long

Shitlib rats would happily live in a corpse-strewn world lit only by fire as long as they are the ones in charge.


Bingo!

The LEFT does not care if America becomes a pile of rubble as long as they are in charge.


18 posted on 08/02/2020 6:37:18 AM PDT by joshua c
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Fiddling.. um no. They are signing massive bills to pay people to stay home.. bringing in hordes of h1bs.. 600,000 in one go round, ensuring that those who believe in the actual words of Jesus can be jailed. More freedoms lost under their watch than i can ever recall. We are being erased under Republican leadership.


19 posted on 08/02/2020 6:44:33 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Salvey

“I don’t think so. There is a deep bench of young, GOP conservatives who will vie for the top spot and won’t go gentle into that good night.”


Trump was able to pull it off because of his vast wealth. I doubt these young conservatives are equipped in the same way.


20 posted on 08/02/2020 6:54:41 AM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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