California and Conservatism: Conditions Exist for Conservatism's Revival in the Interior
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National Review ^
| 06/04/2018 | Victor Davis Hanson
I share some of the sentiments of Jay Nordlinger’s Corner post expressing confidence that some day in the future there may be hope for California conservatism. That’s
why I continue to live in the house that I grew up in, despite vast changes in the nature of the rural community I was born into. But I would take sharp issue with Jay’s statement that current critics of the direction of the state are somehow either prejudicial or dispirited: A lot of us conservatives have long written it off. California is too changed: too brown, too illegal, too bloated, too listless....
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis, Hillsdale College ^
| June/July edition | John Fonte, Hudson Institute
The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It
is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture. The following is adapted from a talk delivered on April 18, 2024, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington. In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the American way of life. This divergence can best be understood in the context of the...
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis ^
| JUNE/JULY 2024 | John Fonte
The key difference between NatCons and FreeCons has to do with the character of the current political struggle against progressives on the Left. FreeCons believe we are mainly involved in policy arguments. FreeCon
signatory Yuval Levin, for instance, writes that our divisions are a family argument between two forms of liberalism: progressive liberalism and conservative liberalism—we are not, he assures us, in a “political fight to the death.” National conservatives, on the other hand, generally believe we are involved in what the late Angelo Codevilla called a “Cold Civil War”—or as third waver Victor Davis Hanson has put it, we...
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis ^
| June/July 2024 | John Fonte
In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These
manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the American way of life.This divergence can best be understood in the context of the history of modern American conservatism, which can be broken into three waves: the first wave, symbolized by William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ronald Reagan, lasted from the mid-1950s to the end of the Cold War; the second wave, symbolized by Paul Ryan and the two Bush presidencies, ran from the 1990s to roughly...
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Conservatism Is Now Everywhere
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Townhall.com ^
| January 29, 2015 | Emmett Tyrrell
WASHINGTON -- There is a problem with the Internet. Its commentary is too often dominated by pinheads. H.L.
Mencken used to complain that only idiots write letters to the editor. That might have been true of his day -- the 1920s and 1930s -- but in our time writers of letters to the editor of newspapers and even of websites are occasionally quite well-informed and even lucid. But others, I am afraid, are indeed pinheads, sitting in their underwear back home, foaming at the mouth, believing that the whole world is profoundly interested in their every word, until the authorities...
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Do Millennials Need Conservatism?
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| September 8, 2014 | Spencer Irvine
America has fought for the Constitution and its values for a short time, but liberals and progressives have gotten the upper hand as of late. Tim
Donner, the president of One Generation Away, spoke at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. on the importance of teaching millennials, youth and children about the Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. One Generation Away is a non-profit organization committed to restore American constitutional values. millennials on electronics Donner shared how the Constitution “has been a subject of great debate over the last several years” and yet, “the good news and...
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National Conservatism
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National conservatism.org ^
| N/A | National conservatism
he return of nationalism has created a much-discussed “crisis of conservatism” that may be unprecedented since modern Anglo-American conservatism was formulated by Russell Kirk, William Buckley, and their colleagues in the 1950s. At
the heart of this crisis is a question: Is the new American and British nationalism a hostile usurper that has arrived on the scene to displace political conservatism? Or is nationalism an essential, if neglected, part of the Anglo-American conservative tradition at its best? The conference on “National Conservatism” will bring together public figures, journalists, scholars, and students who understand that the past and future of conservatism...
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Catch-Up Conservatism
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Steyn Online ^
| 17 Dec 2020 | Mark Steyn
Every morning, like millions of other conservatives in the United States, I wake up to multiple pleas from Republicans to send money NOW!!! to save the Senate. The latest garbage polls show Perdue a quarter-point ahead and Ms Loeffler half-a-point behind, but, given the rate at which the dodgy mail ballots are
pouring in, it's either going to be a double-header Dem landslide or a narrow enough win for the rock-ribbed two-thirds conservative majority of the Supreme Court to be terrified of hearing any lawsuit on the subject. So the GOP need even more of your dough to prevent the...
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Conservatism beyond ballots
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Vanity ^
| 6-30-15 | RKBA Democrat
We've all seen the news of the past week or so. It's
been grim. It started with our elected kleptocrats deciding it would be a cool good idea to eviscerate the middle class through expedited trade authority. The hits just kept coming with the 9 unelected political hacks on the supreme court deciding first that the law doesn't mean what it says with regards to socialist medicine, and then following up and constructing new laws and privileges from whole cloth with regard to homosexual "marriage." For dessert, they decided that the Texas infanticide prevention law needed to be blocked. This...
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Conservatism And Its Discontents
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American Rattlesnake ^
| June 27, 2016 | Gerard Perry
A few additional notes regarding George Hawley’s fascinating look at dissent within the right: Notwithstanding the Trump Ascendancy, his belief that moderate libertarianism-or conservatarianism, as some have dubbed it-will exert the greatest influence over mainstream conservatism in the years ahead holds some merit. The
disdain the modern conservative movement has for genuinely libertarian ideas is reflected in the figure of Jonah Goldberg, someone whom every group described in Professor Hawley’s book would view with contempt, at best. The fact that his publication has gone out of its way to publish writers who present a watered-down, libertarian lite perspective merely demonstrates...
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Conservatism as Counterculture
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National Review ^
| 3/2/2015 | Shelby Steele
I was recently invited to make some remarks at a charity dinner for a cause that I strongly support. The
organizers worried that, because their cause affected only Third World nations, they would have a hard time raising money from an American audience. Localism, it seemed, in everything from farm produce to charity giving, was the new vogue. People wanted to see their dollars at work locally rather than watch them disappear into the coffers of some international organization. Could I help them make the case for international giving? On the night of the dinner it occurred to me to...
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A new voice for conservatism
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The Washington Compost ^
| March 24 | George Will
Today's governor, Doug Ducey, is demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the limited-government conservatism with which Sen. Goldwater shaped the modern GOP, after himself being shaped by life in the leave-me-alone spirit of the wide open spaces of near-frontier Arizona. Last year, Ducey, now 52, told National Review, "If you want to learn
something new, you need to read something old. As Barry Goldwater wrote in 'Conscience of a Conservative,' 'My aim is not to pass laws, it’s to repeal them.' " Ducey was preaching what he already had practiced. He took office in January 2015, as the Super Bowl was about...
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Conservatism 101: Who is Really a Conservative?
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Townhall.com ^
| May 28, 2015 | Bethany Blankley
Most Americans, including most Republicans, do not understand what “conservative” philosophy, principles, and policies are. Merriam-Webster
defines conservative as “believing in the philosophy of conservatism,” which it defines as “belief in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society; dislike of change or new ideas in a particular area.” However, this definition is wrong. The root of conservatism lies in the concept of “ordered liberty” and the fundamental truth that human rights are God-given, not man-made and that individual liberty and freedom are birthrights. Calvin Coolidge, America’s 30th president—perhaps the most conservative president of the last century—emphasized...
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RIP, Movement Conservatism
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American Thinker ^
| February 27, 2017 | J.R. Dunn
Among his other accomplishments, Donald Trump, without ever intending to, has fractured conservatism – something that was long overdue. The
American conservative movement has come quite a distance since the middle of the last century, from a small coterie viewed with contempt by the larger culture to the front ranks of a juggernaut that set back the plans of this country’s left-wing collectivists to a degree that its founders would not have considered possible. (Recall William F. Buckley’s statement that the role of conservatism was to “stand athwart history, yelling “stop.” Incredible as it may seem, “history” did stop.) Today,...
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A New Conservatism Must Emerge
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American Greatness ^
| 02.16.2021 | Arthur Milikh
A New Conservatism Must EmergeAmerica is currently engaged in a regime-level struggle that will preserve or destroy the purpose that has defined it. On
one side stands the American way of life, characterized by republican self-government and the habits of mind and character necessary to sustain it. On the other side stands identity politics, which demands the perpetual punishment and humiliation of so-called oppressor groups combined with the unquestioned rule of the so-called marginalized. These two regimes are in conflict and cannot coexist.The regime of identity politics has already conquered nearly all of America’s major institutions and dominates the moral...
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A More American Conservatism
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Hillsdale College, Imprimis ^
| 12/23/16 | Larry Arnn, President Hillsdale College
The following is adapted from a speech delivered on December 2, 2016, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. The astonishing political campaign of 2016 involved much debate about whether Donald Trump is a conservative. He
was not always facile with the lingo of conservatism, and he pointed out once that he was seeking the nomination of the Republican, not the conservative party. Yet there is a lot we can learn from him about conservatism.
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Real conservatism
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The Williamsport Sun-Gazette ^
| May 3, 2015 | Paul Goldsmith
Seasoned conservatives celebrated when Ted Cruz announced his bid for presidency. Mr.
Cruz is the Tea Party's favorite candidate and he is despised by liberals. Ted Cruz refuses to set aside his belief in traditional values to appease "moderates" and "swing voters". Ted Cruz knows that we need to look to our freedom loving, Christian past to get this nation back on track. The sad thing is that Rand Paul also announced he will run. Mr. Paul is one of these "libertarians". Even the word itself, "libertarian" sounds too much like liberal. Rand Paul is liberal on social issues such...
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What Remains of Conservatism?
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The Imagitive Conservative ^
| 04-04-2021 | Bradley J. Birzer
What remains of traditional conservatism? Should
we concede defeat and see the great conservative figures of the past as women and men of beauty who had their say but who are now relegated to some obscure museum of lost humanist causes? No! To my mind, these voices have never been more needed and more relevant
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Conservatism is Calling
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youtube ^
| Published on Oct 25, 2012 | Kyle Becker
Mark Levin had a caller last night that is the maker of this video. Mark
has seen it and is very impressed by it. He took the callers number and is going to see if he can help him produce more like it. The vid is about a year old but it is well worth the 7 min watch if you haven't seen it before. Forgive if it's been posted here before. A FR search turned up nothing. Conservatism is calling
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Conservatism vs. Progressivism
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The Heritage Foundation / YouTube ^
| 31Oct2018 | Genevieve Wood
The Heritage Foundation’s Genevieve Wood explains three fundamental differences between being a Conservative and being a Progressive.
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