Unfortunately, the left has successfully corrupted the language with a PC culture wherein they get to dictate what is OK to say out loud. This means conservative ideas and principles will be understood as racism, selfishness, bigotry, hate and xenophobia. Defense of liberty is seen as lack of compassion for fellow man. Until this PC poisoning of the language is addressed, no outspoken conservative can be elected.
But you do see how Trump has woken up all of the America that isn’t racist and is sick of being called racist because they like actual sovereign borders and don’t like paying half their salary to illegal alien welfare of one kind or another. This is how we beat down that PC gate. No one else has slammed the statist control of us through PC.
Ted Cruz is now statist. I know it is hard to see because he has espoused conservative principles. But look closely. He has been forced to align with the Uniparty. Thus he is statist now, even if he wasn’t before. He was not independently resourced enough to avoid it. He wanted to be President more than he wanted to get us back our Constitution. He’s made some compromises with his morality and beliefs, if he did have them, and I’ll assume he did.
Yes! That is why I am a Trump supporter. I love his daily dose of political I correctness. Each day, he says something ‘horrible’ and heads explode. It’s like a vaccine. Each day we conservatives are a little more free to say what we think.
I concede the point that Trump is not rooted in conservative principles and doesn’t spout conservative talking points. But he has the same enemies - the left. He may not get it that government in general is the problem, but he sure hates this particular government, and seems determined to tear it down brick by brick.
After he does, perhaps he will want to replace it with a bigger better government, and we conservatives will want to be prepared to stop him in his tracks.
I think it is similar to a war time president like Washington: after he has won the war against the left, we can put him out to pasture, add him to mt Rushmore and elect a conservative who will refortify the constitution.
First we have to win a war that we are now losing badly.