One recalls that buwaya the monarchist (no republican he) wrote to bimboeruption:
"I am so conservative that I support the restoration of the Spanish empire under the Bourbon monarchy, and my guides in political philosophy are Thomas Aquinas and De Maistre.Participating in a Free Republic is one whom as documented, finds conservatives on this forum to be "extremist republican liberals."You extremist republican liberals that call themselves 'conservatives' are funny. You have never understood what you are, much less why you are what you are.
And yet, and yet ...
We actual, genuine conservatives in the great old European tradition see an assertion that we dispute as a challenge to argument, an 'en garde', to a civilized crossing of blades. As did, note, Thomas Aquinas, as his 'Summa' is really a guide to arguments.
Throwing garbage is not defending your position. It is boorish and disorderly behavior best suppressed by the monarch."
Sometimes it is good to recall, and revisit. What one states is what one states. In a superior manner, of course.
This is because he thinks a "genuine conservative" can be a monarchist. Who can "suppress" behavior. That can be characterized as a "great old European tradition." In quite a number of instances and incarnations. None of them republican.
Ah but a non-royal did the last of the House of Bourbon become, as Louis XVI was named "Citizen Capet," who was "guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris on January 21, 1793."
A wee bit of history. Let's lift a glass of Kentucky Bourbon to the Bourbons gone by, and the fact that that "restoration of the Spanish empire under the Bourbon monarchy" isn't in the offing anytime soon. Cheers.
There were conservatives long before the French Revolution, and they have persisted to this day. What Americans consider a conservative was originally a species of liberal.
My species of conservative is that of the Vendee, of De Maistre, of the Carlists, of the Bourbon Restoration, of Chesterton, of C.S.Lewis, of Tolkien. None fit well with modern American ideas.