When you want to know anything about Conservatism, ask Rod Dreher...
Posted on 04/28/2016 10:52:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Yes, says Bill Galston, contending that “Donald Trump is waging and winning the third major revolution in the Republican Party since World War II.” First there was Eisenhower reconciling the GOP with the New Deal. Then there was Reagan, who wrought a “remarkable fusion of supply-side economics, anti-Soviet internationalism and social conservatism.” And now? Excerpt:
Mr. Trump’s candidacy has showed that the cadre of genuine social conservatives is smaller than long assumed, that grass-roots Republican support for large military commitments in the Middle East has withered, and that the business community is politically homeless.
So it has come to this: A mercantilist isolationist is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. Whether or not he goes on to win the general election, the Republican Party cannot return to what it once was. The Reagan era has ended, and what comes next is anyone’s guess.
Read the whole thing. Well, he’s right about that, but instead of giving Trump credit for killing Reaganism, I think we would do well to think about the extent to which Reaganism died a natural death from old age, and the extent to which its heirs killed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
How short the memories. How much misinformation has been infused into what Reaganism was and is? In many ways, Trump is a developing Reagan in the truest spirit. He like Reagan is not afraid of the deal. He is willing to attack problems asymmetrically. For their own glorification, many people have tried to turn the Tea Party concept into a singular political unit that can then be isolated, labeled and attacked. We have seen how well that has worked. They did the same with Reagan, claiming his mantle and using it to project their own brand of conservatism. Look at the wide ranging positions both Reagan and Trump have held and their ability to distill the objective from the rhetoric. There is a great contrast between that thinking and the stilted Faux Conservative who mourns the Reagan that never was.
NO, he is KILLING for once and for all, the Bush doctrine of one world governnment.
Pretty much.
True.
Trump showed that old school conservatism is a minority in the Republican Party.
Happily, so is Establishmentarianism.
Populism is the majority.
The most accurate thing i've read all day. George Herbert Walker Bush destroyed Regan's legacy.
He did many things to damage it, such as that "Kinder Gentler Conservatism" crap, but the bullet to the head was when He elected Bill Clinton by breaking his word on the tax pledge.
*THAT* was the smoking gun. *THAT* is what gave the Democrats the opportunity to stack the courts with loons. *THAT* is what destroyed the credibility of other conservative candidates who the public now thought couldn't be trusted anymore than George Herbert Walker Bush.
In all of human history, there has never been an occasion when moral views were not legislated.
There is no choice about them being legislated. (forced by law) The only choice is about which set of morals is going to *GET* enforced by law.
I hadn’t really thought about this but, if Reagan were here today, who would he endorse? Who would the eternal optimist endorse? Reagan would be a Trumpkin all the way!
Because there is no downside to eroding the moral foundation of concepts like " Thou Shalt not Steal."
Fiscal conservatives are as brain dead stupid as are Atheists who think they can exist in a world free of Religion.
There is no such world, and I wish all the Fiscal conservatives would grow up and realize you will never keep your money and property if you can't keep the foundation from which these concepts emanate.
You let the morals go, and you will eventually be robbed and murdered by the mob.
When you just get taken advantage of time and time again, people wake up and whole new assumptions come into play. For me it is “Conservatism does not work for Conservatives” .It works for the country club elites but not for the rest of us. We have accomplished nothing that does not benefit the C of C crowd.It is time for something else to oppose the left.
When you want to know anything about Conservatism, ask Rod Dreher...
The man who wrote "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation" would not be supporting someone who has been supporting Abortion for most of his life.
I also doubt he would support someone letting mentally ill men use the women's bathrooms. Reagan was a gentleman and a civilized member of a far more civilized society.
Dammit!
You just ruined every “Where’s Waldo” book I own!
Nonsense, the liberal leftists have spent the last 16 of
their years in office feasting on the Reagan golden goose
while doing their best to strangle it. They came close but
it isn’t dead yet.
Exactly
Reaganism died the day he left office.
Read the article
I did read it. My point is that once the author starts tripping all over his own biases to push whatever is his own agenda, it really is not worth reading. I am settled in that view.
Except he is totally wrong. Trump is the same kind of pragmatist that Reagan was. Trump will govern far better than folks give him credit for.
K just wanted to make sure you realized the author was commenting.
There is no fiscal conservatism apart from social conservatism because the social liberal mantra is take from one and give to another.
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