The so called conservative movement is a fake movement because it has achieved very little which is conservative.
Obamacare defunded?
Wall built on border?
Abortions reduced?
Planned Parenthood defunded?
ISIS defeated?
Less terror attacks worldwide by Islamists?
Less Americans on food stamps?
Americans earning less real wages than 2 decades ago?
Regulations on small business reduced?
National debt reduced? (IN SPITE of US Treasury taking in more revenues than ever)
Less illegals in country than ever?
The Washington version of conservatism is really just liberalism without marijuana. In fact, even that may not be totally ruled out.
I could say also that it is liberalism with lower taxes. Of course, that is just about impossible. One thing liberals have right is that if they are to do what they say they want to do, they will have to raise taxes to do it.
The good old WFB days of knocking down communist straw men won’t return. Communism was dragged bloody from the ring but the new prize fighter is more agile, defining all his positions as proven science or what reasonable people think, just miles beyond awkward old communism which basically said, “okay we are evil and backward but at least we are not Nazis whom we defeated with almost no help from you.”
That worked for a while with stupid people and drug addicts but eventually, even liberals could see it was pointless nonsense when communists had nothing to show for their struggles except Cuba and Vietnam, places that people were so desperate to escape, they risked drowning in shark-infested oceans.
Now we have an opponent who says that we are yesterday’s news and that we don’t get how modern society works. To make that argument a bit easier to make, they change modern society to something that cannot work.
This is rope-a-dope. William F Buckley would have puffed three times on his pipe, laughed ironically, and said to the wrong camera, “you’re kidding, right? I mean, these are idiots. At least Gore Vidal had half my I.Q.”
And he was right.
Correct me if I'm wrong but from January '03 through January '07, President Bush sat in the White House and Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate.
Four years of unfettered opportunity to roll back decades of liberalism. Did they do anything?
This is why Trump is the nominee.