So the author is saying the only way to preserve conservatism is to abandon it ?
RE “...So the author is saying the only way to preserve conservatism is to abandon it ...”
No, not my take away from it anyway: I read it as “Ok, so if THIS is the way you Leftards want to play, we can do it too... and you won’t be too happy about it when it’s turned on you.”
I believe he was simly pointing out that abuse is abuse, no matter WHO is doing it, not actually advocating.
Like the old saying - left boot or right boot, they both look the same when they’re stomping on your face.
During the American Revolution, the “rules” said that you had to wear uniforms, march in formation, and engage in battle in an orderly manner. The American troops wore no uniforms, blended into the landscape, hid behind bushes, and disregarded the formal rules of battle. That is how they won.
That is what the liberals have done. They have not followed the law. They have used the courts to thwart the law and the will of the people. They have infiltrated the media and the education system and the executive ranks of business and commerce and shaped public opinion via lies and propaganda. They have behaved like Revolutionary War soldiers and they have succeeded.
We need to do the same - change the rules, change the game - to defeat them.
Was it abandoning conservative principles to declare independence and go to war against our own government in 1776? Sometimes the system is so broken that the most conservative thing you can do is throw out the rules.