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“Now we have to conquer communism and Islamism, by any means available”

You cannot conquer them by acting like them; you do and you become just like them with the “success” of that justifying continuing to be just like them. You become culture of the means and methods you adopt.

Tariffs are the best way to promote domestic industry and raise revenue. WIN WIN.

All of you anti tariffs globalist Nazis are indeed crazy and traitorous.

As constructive criticism. You should have stuck with your first statement and not destroyed any credibility that you might have had with the second. I don't have strong feelings about this one way or the other, but anyone who name calls the way that you do is only demonstrating that the arguments for or against are far over your head.

I forgot to add one of the most important points:

• Investigating, charging, and punishing government employees who weaponized government to attack their political opponents with all the organs of government is not just the right and mandatory thing to do, it is Conservatism.

“I keep lists.”

I am sure you do.

I had an aunt that ‘kept lists.’ They tied her to a chair and hauled her off to the looney bin.

But I am sure you are fine.

Because most mainstream gopers are free traitors he has to act like a populist. He wouldn’t have to if team right would drop the globalism. But traitors got to trade.

LOL, I read your post and thought I had stuck the “Idiocracy” DVD in my home theater!

I hated the piece, if you cannot tell.

True. Populism is NOT Conservatism.

• Keeping us out of armed conflicts while we try to get our country back on more stable footing , as George Washington and John Adams did in their time, is Conservatism.
  
  
• Addressing and stopping an existential flood of illegal aliens into this country, is Conservatism.
  
  
• Putting our country on a path to Energy Dominance to grow our way out of socialist/Marxist schemes, is Conservatism.
  
  
• Imposing tariffs on countries that engage in unfair trading practices like Communist China and Canada to restore and re-shore stolen and surrendered industries is Conservatism.
  
  
• Reducing the size of government is Conservatism.
  
  
• Fighting election fraud is Conservatism.
  
  
• Reducing Taxes is Conservatism.
  
  
• Reducing the bureaucratic red tape, burden, hurdles, and impediments to Nuclear Power, Oil, Coal, Gas, and mineral exploitation of resources is Conservatism.
  
  
• Battling the evil of unlimited abortion is Conservatism.
  
  
• Promoting 2nd Amendment Rights is Conservatism.
  
  
• Purging DEI, Affirmative Action, and Critical Race Theory from the Military and Classrooms and keeping males out of female sports is Conservatism.
  
  
• Impeding and stopping the evil and destruction of transgenderism on youth instead of encouraging it is Conservatism.
  
  
• Reducing waste, fraud, and fiscal abuse in government is Conservatism.
  
  
• Reducing crime is Conservatism.
  
  
• Making the military an attractive option for potential recruits instead of milking the military as a jobs program for unqualified candidates is Conservatism.

This is not a criticism of you, TPM.

I disliked this article wholly. Of course Populism is not Conservatism, and the author seems fully invested in the notion that the Trump Presidency is all populism and no substance.

This person who wrote it sounds like a weak-kneed wimp who is going to cave at the first hint of pushback and run to the rear. These people who have taken over our country, robbed it of industry, infected it with DEI, CRT, and Affirmative Action did not do this overnight.

It took them decades to do it. And that destruction was nearly complete in 2024. This attempt to reclaim our country from those people is not going to be done overnight. It isn't going to be perfect. These evil people who have infested society at all levels, not just the government aren't going to raise their hands and surrender as they walk out the door saying "You got me."

They are burrowed in like ticks, and rooting them out and eliminating their influence and policies is going to take years, if not decades.

And it isn't going to all go in one direction...ours. That mindset is stupid, asinine, juvenile, and weak. There are going to be victories and losses. We will go through times of one step forward, one or two steps back. I won't be perfect, it won't be clean, and mistakes will be made.

People who write articles like this can exercise their free speech and spew blather as long as they don't get in the damn way.

In order to discuss this topic with me you have to be a nationalist and PRO TARIFF. You are neither. I keep lists.

AOC snickers gets new name plate for new office made.

Someday we might get a stimulus check that used to be in an account held by Soros or some other enemy foreign/domestic..

Now that would be a great sign of obliteration and draining.

It is a crazy idea.

Because a person pays $250/year/more for Chinese chattels is no reason to give that person $2,000.

The dividend is the ability to continue the tax cuts at 100%.

This one of the most dark negative anti MAGA sites on the internet made so by fake conservatives that are actually anti nationalist traitors.

When you take away the spankings when they do bad things it never gets any better.

Never has teenagers been such ass holes as they are now.

“We used to respect things. Now we perform rage. We used to debate ideas. Now we chant slogans. We used to believe in virtue. Now we fundraise off vice.”

By “we” he is describing Democrats. This Brady Bunch reject sounds like the guy who calls in a radio show and says “I voted for Trump 3x but blah, blah, blah...”.

Tariffs are the best way to promote domestic industry and raise revenue.

If it successfully promotes domestic industry, it won't raise much revenue. Nobody pays tariffs on things made here.

But you already knew that ...

“He said that the dividend of at least $2,000 would be paid to everyone, bar ‘high income people,’ although he did not state what the threshold for that would be.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15274281/Trump-tariff-dividend-check-American-revenue.html

The newfreep sponge refuses to open his wallet to support Free Republic. Everybody else has got to carry his load while he sponges up bandwidth.

To distract from this deadbeat freeploading, he makes phony accusations about me, a financial contributor to Free Republic.

What we've got here is failure to contribucate.

To me Economic Nationalism is the bedrock of conservatism, and that means doing what’s best for the country. Sometimes it’s higher tariffs, sometimes not.

Well...one difference would be that it is actual money vs. borrowed or printed money.

But we’ve still got so much of that going on that I agree it would be better to use this to reduce the deficit or pay down higher interest debt holdings.

I have no idea what this guy is talking about.

Whoever said that no tarriffs are the bedrock of conservatism.

Trump did first rate job of explaining that in the first 100 years of America’s existence it was a high tarriff country—with no income taxes. That enabled the USA industry to ward off the better british industrialists through the 19th century.

Then when US industry became more competitive than the british industrialists—the switched policies to become a low tarriff country.

Now that so many countries have better industries than the US—its best for the US to revert to being a high tarriff country so as to nurture the growth of the US industries.

Big deal.

No conservatism needed. Just common sense. Thank you very much.