“This election shows that there are different kinds of conservatism, and they may not necessarily agree with each other.”
Exactly.
In the end, what made Ronald Reagan so great was the he was able to hold together the various strains of conservatism. No one has been able to do that since. No one. And, I gotta tell you, there ain’t another Reagan on the horizon.
Though the die hard social conservatives are likely to disagree, the conservative movement in the 1980’s was a lot more libertarian than it is today. The splintering of the conservative movement has actually been a long time coming. Well, that time appears to be here now.
My most sincere apologies for the multi-posts. I kept getting that dam*ed “Server Unavailable” message.