Spare me your patronizing.
Like Von Hayek’s English socialists, you do not perceive the only difference between your current advocacy and the opposition you fight against is time.
Pretending Trump will become a despot, because he has the temerity to actually win against his ideological opponents is a gross mischaracterization of an “American” personified, and a myopic failure to recognize our status quo.
Pining for the Republic of the Founders is abject foolishness as our electorate is comprised of more than 50% women, unlike those Founders. The adage of trading liberty for security is a fact of life for us as women by their very nature have always been predisposed to prize security more than liberty.
Conservatives must find some middle ground, and as things currently stand, we have precious little to bargain with.
I am sure you agree that Obama has acted more and more despotically. Trump has said he do the same to reverse what Obama has done, not to bring the last tyrant to justice.
Yet you call it pretending Trump will become a despot. The only pretense are those who don’t admit we are already there.
I’m with you if you want it reversed. But by any means necessary does not fit well with a constitutional.
So you think the republic is dead? You may be right. However, don’t pretend to us that you don’t want a dictator. You already said as much, when you argued that Trump wouldn’t be saying what he has “if he didn’t already have a plan to coerce such cooperation.” That is why I broke my silence.
See: COERCE is the word YOU chose. You find it appealing.
Fine. Now be man enough to own the fact that you believe a tyrant is okay as long as he acts as you think is fit. This was Free Republic last I looked.