The Whigs and the Federalists are the predecessors of the GOP. Both went under when they refused to pay attention to the issues of the general public in favor of the monetary desires of their respective elites. If you like, you can also try to explain in terms of ISSUES not horse races, why McClintock, in your estimation is a Whig.
McClintock is a Whig, by his beliefs. Limited, constitutional government, freedom of contract, and individual liberty restrained from license are the Whig basics. Big on industrialization, believed in "progress", moral, political, and religious as well as economic. Not "one man one vote" democrats, instead a property test for the franchise. John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith were Whigs, as were the fellows who suppressed the Highland Risings of 1715 and 1745. So was the Marquis of Lafayette, of Revolutionary War fame, later guillotined in France.
And that is the rub. The Whigs never evolved defences against the Left, and kept prattling on about limited government in the face of the Left's attacks. Lincoln attacked the Whigs, and installed a overpowering central government that ignored the constitution, and jailed thousands without habeas corpus. Wilson ratified the 16th amendment by fiat, as recent research shows that the 16th was never legally ratified, and installed the Federal Reserve Board. New Deal, Great Society, going off the gold standard in '73, then Carter and Clinton, and now big, big government "conservatives" in Washington. This is the world as it is, the Left has been winning steadily since about 1830. Read the Communist Manifesto. See how the program has come true in America. Whiggery has never been able to even slow this conquest down.
Jerry Pournelle says American Conservatives are Christian Whigs. He is right. Either Christ or Whiggery will have to go. I would rather loose Whiggery.
McClintock is a Whig, by his beliefs. Limited, constitutional government, freedom of contract, and individual liberty restrained from license are the Whig basics. Big on industrialization, believed in "progress", moral, political, and religious as well as economic. Not "one man one vote" democrats, instead a property test for the franchise. John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith were Whigs, as were the fellows who suppressed the Highland Risings of 1715 and 1745. So was the Marquis of Lafayette, of Revolutionary War fame, later guillotined in France.
And that is the rub. The Whigs never evolved defences against the Left, and kept prattling on about limited government in the face of the Left's attacks. Lincoln attacked the Whigs, and installed a overpowering central government that ignored the constitution, and jailed thousands without habeas corpus. Wilson ratified the 16th amendment by fiat, as recent research shows that the 16th was never legally ratified, and installed the Federal Reserve Board. New Deal, Great Society, going off the gold standard in '73, then Carter and Clinton, and now big, big government "conservatives" in Washington. This is the world as it is, the Left has been winning steadily since about 1830. Read the Communist Manifesto. See how the program has come true in America. Whiggery has never been able to even slow this conquest down.
Jerry Pournelle says American Conservatives are Christian Whigs. He is right. Either Christ or Whiggery will have to go. I would rather loose Whiggery.