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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The damage done to conservatism by Conservatism Inc. is Orwellian
The very essence of conservatism used to be all these things, American culture, history, nation, heritage, family and faith, spokes on the wheel of its organic whole. But the libertarians have co-opted all that away and replaced it with an ideology of materialism which has erased the memory of it to the extent that the two, conservatism and libertarianism, are now indistinguishable in the popular imagination.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
The "Conservatarians" are as condescending toward Trump voters today as Hillary's voters were yesterday
To Hillary, Trump voters were deplorables.
To conservatarians, Trump voters are the WrestleMania vote, the ignorant gulls who fill Trump's rallies around the country to this day.
Jon Gabriel of Ricochet and Stephen L. Miller count themselves conservatarians, here.
Like Frank Meyer's fusionism which tried to combine libertarianism and traditionalism, conservatarianism also conceives of itself as a libertarian mixture, but with social liberalism not traditionalism.
As such, however, this simply represents the failed status quo, which has been only too happy to use the traditional right at election time since Reagan but otherwise has paid but lip service to it once in power. Its main interest on the one side claims to be fiscal probity, but vainly imagines that its reprobate self even wants smaller deficits. Under Bush 43, debt to the penny soared from $5.7 trillion to $10.7 trillion. In truth, conservatarianism only affects conservatism. Its real interest is in Bacchus.
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish? -- James 3:11
Nay, nay.
Monday, October 8, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Erick Erickson: Trump is positively angelic compared to his political opponents and the press
But he repeats himself.
Here:
Trump is neither an ambassador for my values nor the articulate champion of my principles I would prefer. But he is a safe harbor in a progressive storm that seeks to both destroy my values and upend our constitutional republic. ...
The political press has behaved as co-conspirators with the Democrats in the Kavanaugh matter. They have clearly been fully co-opted. Reporters are planting their flags with the so-called Resistance and donning pink hats instead of defending truth and reporting facts.
There is much in the present political age about which I am uncertain. But there is one thing about which I am absolutely certain: President Trump is not my enemy, and too many progressives view me as theirs.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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