What a bunch of sanctimonious blather.
Movement Conservative died when Buckley died and his heirs, like Rich Lowry, decided they were more interested in the perks of access and power then the principals of limited Government Conservatives. They got corrupted by the Machine. They have no one but themselves to blame for their collapse
The conservative movement got comfortable with making money and making as few waves as possible so they can keep making money.
Now that the people are moving, they are now acting offended and miffed, and accusing us of being sheep.
I wonder if the writer ever listened to a single full broadcast of Rush or read a single book by Coulter.
Most likely not.
Just repeating the pre-digested pap he gets at his Washington cocktail parties.
Erick Erickson is “a man of mountainous ego” who unlike Trump has not actually created anything to match his titanic ego.
This is pure crap. It’s blaming the rise of Trump on the GOP being “too conservative” and xenophobic, when the truth is that the rise of Trump can be traced to the GOP position on immigration. Absent that one issue, Trump gets no real traction.<p.
I can’t stand the guy, but I can still see reality.
I was going to comment but the stench coming off this steaming pile forces me to cut it short and jump to another thread!
The sooner that people realize THIS IS THE REASON people such as myself are supporting Trump, the better off we'll all be.
She says all that like it’s a bad thing...
We are SICK AND TIRED of the ignorant, politically correct “bipartisanship” nonsense from the GOP. We are SICK AND TIRED of being told one thing during the campaign, then getting the opposite once the traitors get elected. We are SICK AND TIRED of being on the losing team, when we know we can win. THIS is what has created Trump. We want a winner. We want someone that’s not goona pull punches simply out of fear they might hurt a special interest donor. We want someone that will stand for the little guy and make things better. The GOP has FAILED at all of this.
For decades the citizens have been demanding the illegal alien inundation be stopped.
The only answer from politicians of both parties was another amnesty.
The last one resulted in 10 times the number of illegal aliens.
We are still waiting 30 years later for the promised enforcement.
Every election since the last amnesty, The Cheap Labor Express has managed to manipulate the process to force us to vote for amnesty candidates.
The RNC/GOP is directly responsible for Trump’s rise by purposely working against their voters.
I’ve basically said what this guy has said for years.
Since laying blame upon the wrong people, nothing else this person might have to say seems even remotely possible to make me waste time to see what that might be.
It couldn’t be because conservatives have been treated like second class citizens and lied to and betrayed by the GOP for decades, could it?
The power of psychological projection on the Left is amazing.
Pheuy! This is what happens when people think more of the Kardashians than the Constitution
The Conservative Movement™ is a globalist, transnationalist monstrosity which has wrapped itself in our beautiful flag to deceive us while they dissolve our nation from under our feet.
I will vote for Bernie Sanders before I vote for Marco Rubio, and if you don't understand the impulse, you don't have enough contact with the wreckage of the white working class.
The Atlantic explains Conservatives.
Kind of like Stalin explaining what was wrong with Russian Jews just before he sent them to the Gulag.
This article is typical meaningless elitist BS “analysis”, just the same as the nonsense being peddled at NRO and all the rest of the so-called citadels of “conservative principles”.
The reality is that Trump’s rise was precipitated by the effectiveness of applied elitist “conservative principles”.
After all, so many of us still remember how the heroic “conservative” Republican-led Congress stood up to Obama and stopped his agenda dead in its tracks by passing a budget that eviscerated his illegal immigration policies, eliminated the energy-destroying EPA, eliminated the Marxist propaganda Education Department, eliminated the job-destroying Labor Department, eliminated the racist Civil Rights Commission, defunded the FCC until they give back control of the Internet to private industry, defunded Obamacare, defunded the Planned Parenthood slaughter, defunded enforcement of 99% of Obama”s regulations and Executive Orders. It was a great day for America when that happened, when conservative Republicans stopped Obama’s agenda cold.
Given all of these amazing accomplishments by the “conservative” Republican party, it’s no wonder that the only thing that rank-and-file Republicans everywhere care about is getting some more of them elected so that they can continue applying their “conservative” Republican principles to such good effect.
In other words, Trump’s rise has got jack to do with Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Breitbart.com, Mark Levine or any other media outlet. Nonetheless, I find it charming that uberlib Atlantic is so CONCERNED about the demise of “movement conservatism”, because, after all, The Atlantic is the first place ALL conservatives go to get their fingers on the pulse of trends in conservatism.