Posted on 01/27/2021 9:13:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Trump created a new conservatism. Now its our job to nurture it.
Back in the early days of the Donald Trump phenomenon, whenever he supposedly got out of line a recurring joke about him was, “But he fights.” The pundits laughed. The poor rubes suckered by Trump were supposedly taken in by some canard that he was a fighter. But the fact is he was, he won a lot of those fights, and his voters are better off for those wins.
When the spurious allegations of long past sexual misconduct from now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh emerged, conventional wisdom said his nomination was over. Pre-Trump, that would have been exactly right. He would have been thrown under the bus in the time it took a Sandy Koufax fastball to reach the plate. It was the smart play. But instead Trump fought.
Moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, as U.S. presidents have promised for, well nigh my whole life and never delivered on, was accomplished. This was supposedly going to retard the prospects of peace in the Middle East. Instead, Trump achieved the historic normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab states. That happened because he fought.
Since the late 1980s we have assumed that opening trade to communist China would liberate the repressive state there. We did that even after Tiananmen Square. It didn’t work. We now have a China even more committed to repressing its people. Our workers lost out over those decades of acquiescence to China. Trump started a trade war. He fought.
The pro-transgender movement has now convinced the left there is no difference between a biological man and a biological woman. Joe Biden signed an executive order making sure that girls have to compete against boys in sports. Trump ordered the exact opposite of this, compelling the federal government to respect the scientific idea of biological sex. He fought.
Against all odds, Trump reduced American troop levels overseas, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. He protected our soldiers. He proved something that seemed almost impossible: the idea that a sitting president doesn’t have to start new wars. In less than a week, Biden is increasing troop levels overseas. Trump fought.
Our public schools are teaching our kids a version of American history that leads them to believe ours is a horrible nation, rife with racism and in need of radical reform. Trump knew that isn’t true. He commissioned thinkers to create the 1776 Commission to reform this horrible left turn. Biden erased that effort in his first days in office. Again, Trump fought.
I probably used the “but he fights” line back when I feared Trump was a great threat to the republic. You’d have to check my Twitter account. But I was wrong. It’s not actually a joke. He really did fight for things that are remarkably important when far too many in the Republican Party just let them slide. Trump spoke for me and my ideas and the ideas of millions of Americans.
Conservatives aren’t supposed to fight. We are supposed to go gently into that dark night of leftist hegemony and just hope our Norman Rockwell prints aren’t confiscated and cancelled. No. David French and Jonah Goldberg can keep doing that for whoever reads them anymore, but conservatives will not. We will keep up Trump’s fight.
When William F. Buckley annunciated movement conservatism, he said things like “Nominate the most electable conservative” and “Stand athwart history yelling stop!” These were incredibly defensive positions. In retrospect, maybe making George Will’s bow tie the avatar for a conservatism that ceded cultural ground at every turn was a mistake.
Trump invited the American people to fight back. We can argue over whether he was a carnival clown, but as the examples above show, it was wildly successful. There is no going back. Biden’s cavalcade of leftist wish list executive orders shows exactly where we are. Democrats don’t desire a détente, they desire domination. Over you, over your kids, over your community.
Unlike Buckley, Trump appeals to working-class and minority voters, and makes an effort to earn their votes. Unlike Buckley, Trump does not simply assume we are losing and trying to slow it down. He wants to win. And, yeah, he lost. He fought, but he lost.
Now it’s our fight. Now it is our responsibility to save the country. Who’s with me?
Damn right!
He did not lose, he was cheated out of office by BOTH parties.
The Big Steal was BIPARTISAN.
“Trump created a new conservatism.”
Nothing really new about it. Just about all of Trump’s 2016 campaign themes were present in Pat Buchanan’s speech at the 1992 GOP Convention. Perot was a weird attempt for a political outlet, as was Ron Paul. Conservatism was utterly highjacked right after the Cold War.
Trump represents a return from the neocon diversion/subversion. Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney (who sucks, bad) ... None of them could possibly utter the words “America First” in any serious way. The GOP thought we were stuck with them, but ultimately they are stuck with us until such time as we have a better option.
“Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It’s Our Turn”
Do you realize if the Biden administration continues to trash the Constitution it may come down to an actual fight?
Trump invited the American people to fight back.
Founding fathers nod
I am losing fair wether friends over telling them I am completely done hearing about how “Trump is good but... he’s always so meeean”
Who is he mean to? Not to me. Never. He’s up front and bold to people who lie cheat, steal, aid and comfort the enemy, people who promote and encourage destructive and murderous behavior
I’m sick of so called trump supporters defending these people. They need protection from his bold truth telling?
I’m defending Trump in, at the very least, that way.
Stop with the violence blather.
Trump said so himself. The Capitol invaders didn’t cause enough trouble?
Idiot
Start with Harris.
She’s providing a tie-breaking vote in the Senate as President of the Senate. But Senate Resolution 511 from 2007 states she is ineligible to hold that position; her election was UNLAWFUL.
The Resolution states that Sen. McCain was qualified as a Natural Born Citizen and Presidential candidate because he “... was born of American citizen parents on a US Military base ...”.
Harris is a native born citizen of multiple foreign parents. That removes the backstop that Biden is clinging to.
Then turn the Senate’s attention to Obama, if they want to impeach a former President, for the same reason as Harris.
Correct! We got our right cheek smote.
We turned our left cheek to them an they smote it also. That is our only other option. Living as their slave is not an option for me.
Now we know their names, we know their plan, just because they are inside the wire doesn't mean we give up.
This link
https:/lookaheadamerica.org/
was shared with me last night on another thread.
I highly recommend everyone check it out.
You need to know where the battle ground is before you can enter the fight.
Otherwise you are just someone else’s pawn.
In intelligence, that is called defining the Joint Operating Area, which is done prior to producing the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (IPB).
This can not be emphasized enough.
It is bad enough we have to deal with the democrats. But at least they are a known factor. The traitors within the party are a bigger danger.
We have 2 years to get every conservative out of the GOP.
If not, it’s just Ross Perot again.
Not that it matters anyway. Voting doesn’t work.
>>> In intelligence, that is called defining the Joint Operating Area,
A little more difficult when the battlefield is not a geographical location.
Samuel Adams had these biting words to say to armchair patriots:
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, “What should be the reward of such sacrifices?” Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, the glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
That is why they changed the term from “battlefield” to “battlespace” in military doctrine. Cyber is included.
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