(Nor is what has become fashionable to call globalism").
Populism is not conservatism.
(Nor is rule by elites)
True conservatism has reference to the Constitution and its limitations on government when government intrudes on the marketplace, when government intrudes in international trade on behalf of favored domestic interests, when government represents government by special interests, when government buys votes with other people's money, when government undertakes to distribute wealth, when government sets out to do that which is not constitutionally authorized to do, when government inevitably generates unintended consequences.
Conservatism adheres to these constitutional and philosophical principles rather than whoring after the man on horseback or a white Knight who promises he alone has the insight to make everything nice, or great again if you prefer. We saw the Democrats do that with Barack Obama as they had done it with every candidate since Franklin Roosevelt. We conservatives should not succumb to the same siren.
