“Conservative Orthodoxy has become a whore, drunk on our blood and travails.”
I’ve thought that for years! If what we’ve seen of “so-called conservatism” in recent years is what is really is, it needs to go, and be replaced with populism or whatever it is that you call what Trump is selling. Conservatism only works for the crony capitalists today. The Dow isn’t a measure of how average people are doing, it’s just a barometer for the rich.
Trump is selling Americanism.
It's okay, you can say it.
The “conservatism” of recent years has not been conservative at all.