Well I'm a classical liberal. And as Reagan said, the heart and soul of American conservatism is libertarianism.
One of the primary reasons that the public-without exception-is disenchanted with them is that they want to strip ordinary citizens of their sovereignty and freedom, and force them to swear allegiance to unaccountable, elitist institutions, whether it be the judiciary-in places like North America and Israel-or the EU-Western Europe-or the UN-the overriding concern of the current Democratic Party.
The only place where the left is ascendant is in South America, where the left-irrespective of whether or not you happen to agree with their policies-uniformly identify themselves with populist causes.
The Democrats move farther away from the legacy of FDR and Truman-and correspondingly, embrace the legacy of Stevenson, McGovern and other out of touch politicians-and continue to lose election after election.
The same problems are inherent with the Franco-German axis, and their lame attempt at selling this pan-continental monstrosity.
When will they learn that people aren't buying what they're attempting to sell, and adjust course?