Posted on 06/10/2024 12:42:39 PM PDT by TBP
Conservatism has never been about a person. It didn't require fealty to Taft or Goldwater or Reagan. It didn't require loyalty to Bill Buckley or Russell Kirk. Similarly, it does not revolve around Donald Trump.
Both much of MAGA and many anti-MAGA conservatives display an almost cultish devotion to their positions, to the point that they will attack fellow conservatives for holding a different view.
But as President Reagan said, "My 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy."
Let's not be like the left. Let's not have a rigid Party Line from which no one can deviate in the slightest or we'll have them cancelled and destroyed. We're not them; we're better people.
That's not to say that conservatism doesn't have a broadly defining set of principles. But we should never fall into the rigid authoritarian thought policing of the left, and too many on the conservative side are showing quite a willingness to do so.
It's a bad conservative habit. (Libertarians too, in this regard.) We tend to be purists and we tend to eat our own. All that does is set us back and keep us losing.
We've got to stop playing that game.
This tripe posted already.
Right now the #1 conservative position is reducing the deep state’s control over Americans. Absolutely no one has done more to expose them than Trump.
Another twit of an author.
“BLAH BLAH BLAH ME. BLAH BLAH BLAH ME”
Mindreading is not analyis.
MAGA people are definitely not “party loyalty” types...that’s how 90% of demoncrats vote and that initial, main point is why this “analysis” is garbage.
Late comers [mostly RINO’s] see the writing on the wall and want to get on the winning train and not left at the station. It is, as always with them, self-interest. Not a principle among them.
Like the author is somehow not to blame in anyway for the convoluted dumpster fire. How do we know they are not?
But a vote against Trump is a vote against MAGA.
Where’s the conservatism in that?
Agree! Many prefer to wallow in their purity then to be elected!
“We tend to be purists and we tend to eat our own. All that does is set us back and keep us losing.”
I disagree. We never lose. What actually happens is the democrats steal elections.
This is one of the unforeseen costs of stealing elections. You invalidate yourself top to bottom.
I guess it goes something like this?
“I’m a conservative, but I don’t want to make American great again.”
(And let’s not miss the fact that these anti-MAGA “conservatives” have no alternative to making America great again.)
Well said.
Yeah, but it is formated this time.
That makes it better, right?
Your principled conservatism preventing you from voting for Trump is a false equivalency.
It’s Trump or destruction.
There is no other take.
If you don’t see that, you’re an arsehole and deserve the hell you’re bringing on yourself and your family.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.Time to face reality.
“... we can ensure that conservatism remains a vibrant and principled force in American politics. “
In what sense is “conservatism” currently a “vibrant and principled force” in the USA or any Western country ?
It is a joke of faker politician Regime “conservatives” who have been utterly defeated by the Left on every issue.
I think he doth protest too much. 🤔 Not buying his 💩.
Democrats INVENTED this coercion! Biden: If you don’t vote democrat, you ain’t Black!”
Need I say more...
In some ways, it almost makes people like me hope that you get what you don't see coming, even though it & they are in everyone's face with their lies.
People like you refuse to wake up.
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