In all fairness, Sessions represents a symptom that conservatives are trying hard to overcome. That is the holding on to old, dead ideas that are inefficient, wasteful, and lead to government excess.
In his case, continuing the war on marijuana. We have wasted a trillion dollars on it, and continue to waste money, and at the cost to our civil rights through property confiscation without criminal charge.
It began with the prohibition of alcohol, and the legal abuses that were created in those times are still with us today, as well as substantial organized crime families.
The War on Drugs amplified these villainies to ridiculous degrees, confiscating hundreds of billions of dollars which are then used to militarize our police into paramilitaries.
Marijuana ceased long ago to even be needed to sustain this insanity, and once we no longer federally pursue it, all we will have done is to get rid of the smallest part of the monster that has been created.
And just today Sessions claimed that the Patriot Act, and all of its abuses against American citizens, not terrorists or foreigners, is just peachy and should be continued. TO HELL with that.
But it’s not limited to Sessions. Zinke in Interior also wants to cling on to every square inch of land taken by the federal government to deny the states and the people its use. There is ZERO justification for doing so, other than to feed the government monster.
We have 16 major intelligence agencies, and well over 100 federal police agencies, and non-police and non-intelligence agencies armed to the teeth with their own SWAT units.
Conservatives know that the only way to stop the monster is to stop it. Every part of the government must be considered for elimination, with only those that efficiently perform their *constitutional* role needing to fight to justify their continuation.
THE STATUS QUO SUCKS. People who are comfortable with it do not belong in government. Every bit of it must prove itself as essential if it is to continue.
And that is conservatism. And that is what we demand.
Way too soon to judge Sessions.