[Longbow1969]

Well, maybe it's "Conservatism" that's the problem then, as currently formulated. The Free-trade cult, this obsession with passing trade bills like TPP, open borders, cheap labor, etc., all of these things are utterly fatal to the country. They only benefit big corporations and the elite, but they destroy the country utterly.

I don't like Trump at all and am more of a free trader ( I think you compete by cutting taxes, cutting regulation, etc), but you have, I think, made a very important point that is often being overlooked. The fight isn't just over who is more conservative than who on some scale that we use to measure modern day "conservatives", we are now really fighting over what it means to be conservative - and quite frankly, some of those "populist" ideas that Trump and those that agree with him support have a lot more in common with what unions and the left would support. It is possible we are seeing a realignment, or at least a fight over the issue, of what it means to be conservative.

Cheers.

[frnewsjunkie]

Conservative has become a political correct word. It means whatever the person using it wants it to mean.

[central_va]

You appear to be on the wrong side.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

some of those "populist" ideas that Trump and those that agree with him support have a lot more in common with what unions and the left would support

Well, Barack Obama denounced NAFTA too and promised to do something about it, but ended up pushing TPP, which is NAFTA on steroids, which the "conservative" elites wanted passed too, such as Marco Rubio. What's really happening isn't a realignment, but a realization that we're being played by Liars and Freaks on both sides of the aisle. What is needed is not YOUR kind of Conservatism, but a Patriotic, nationalist conservatism. Anything else simply plays along with the agenda of the globalists like Rubio, Cruz, and willing propagandists like Hush Bimbo.