“end of the conservative movement in America.”
More like the end of America, as I knew it.
God only knows if or when it will come back.
I am now happy to be in a growing country that is free of PC crap and leftist.
What country is that? I can’ think of one on this planet that isn’t PC except maybe Australia.
What is the gun ownership situation like in Slovakia? Are there a lot of restrictions or is it better than most countries in Europe?
TR, a great foreign policy president and tremendous national motivator, was the most anti-business president we had until the New Deal; Grover Cleveland, a Dem and weak on foreign policy, was a fantastic "stick-to-the-constitution" president domestically.
A lot of things have become permanently more "conservative" or liberty-oriented since 1932. Gun laws, for example, are far more in line with the Constitution than they were 30 years ago. Personal liberty laws are too. Property laws are worse.
What we are seeing, in fact, is a generational realignment of the parties. In the 1850s, neither party would deal with the problem of the day: slavery. So one eroded (the Whigs) and another version of it rose up without the pro-slavery wing. In the late 1900s, the Dems got on a pro-silver, inflation kick. It forced a realignment and drove the sound money people out of the party.
McGovern in 1972 drove many foreign-policy Dems out of the party.
Things like this shake out after a while. There are too many conservative Dems and hard-core conservative Republicans not to have a successful party, but until a leader captures the imagination and gets people to say, "Yeah! THAT'S what I believe in," you will get "personalities" like Obama and back-room pols like McCain running the show.
Tell me more of this country, this "Slovakia".