What a Trump Nomination Means for Conservatives

And for all of you people who were fooled into thinking Cruz was non-establishment, and an "outsider", in the face of a mountain of information proving otherwise..

Today, Senator Lindsey Graham announced his full-throated support for Senator Ted Cruz, to include giving Cruz access to Graham’s extensive donor and lobbying lists for financial support.

[…] Sen. Lindsey Graham will host a fundraiser on Monday in support of Sen. Ted Cruz.

You are referring to a legal term, which refers to a statutory crime. The incidence of the crime, almost always involves elements that would not pertain to a state of nature. I would agree that one of the reasons men create governments to secure their natural rights, is to define actions that will be punishable. I have no idea why you pose the question as you do; but if anything it obfuscates rather than clarifies.

So, let's look at the facts. Today, at low ebb, Trump garners approximately 4 in 10 Republican voters. Let's assume that at least half of those Americans aren't conservative -- a fair guess, given that many have admitted bias in polls in favor of government interventionism in the economy, a sneaking love for government entitlement programs and a strong position against immigration -- not for safety reasons, but to prevent economic competition. Meanwhile, more than 4 in 10 Americans support Democrats outright.

This means that at least 6 in 10 Americans support a big government vision of the world.

Or even more. But it was always like that.

People didn't vote for Nixon or Reagan or Bush because they wanted less government in an absolute sense. They may only have wanted less government than the Democrats wanted.

But it's not a question of "wanting big goverment" it's more a matter of not wanting major changes -- not wanting major moves towards more government but also not wanting a move toward substantially less government either

Rush and others have made a career and a fortune telling people “all you need is conservatism”. If that were true, wouldn’t Cruz be the clear frontrunner? Trump has better identified and prioritized the issues and like Reaganis proposing pragmatic America-first solutions. One need only look at the number of nonmilitary federal employees during Reagan vs Obama to find proof that even Reagan was not able to fully implement a conservative agenda.

As Pres. Reagan said:

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.... The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

We should listen to Ronald Reagan when he talks about the very heart and soul of conservatism.

Reagan's heart and soul of conservatism—the libertarian heart and soul—is absent in Donald Trump. Where is there any libertarianism in Trump at all? He favors strong government and increased centralized authority.

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