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“The only time I’ve seen conservatives display these behaviors is when they are on the wrong side of an issue.

You were fully aware that your accusation was groundless when you uttered it.”

If there’s one thing this campaign has taught me it’s that the far right is just as fervently irrational and stubborn in their beliefs as is the far left.

I’ve renounced my “conservatism” for populism with a side of nativism.

I have renounced my conservatism for populism with a side of nativism. You are not by yourself! How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996 The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again? What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs? What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price? What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America? What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts

“If there’s one thing this campaign has taught me it’s that the far right is just as fervently irrational and stubborn in their beliefs as is the far left.”

If we had some way to measure the degree to which a falsehood is false, that one would max it out.

The conservatives who are disagreeing with me are not being irrational. Their reasons are thoughtful, even if mistaken.

Leftism is inherently irrational. Conservatism is not, which leaves conservatives free to act right.