“To do so is to abandon conservatism”
Who gets to define conservatism? The High Priests of Conservative Orthodoxy, or you?
I know Mark Levin and Ted Cruz have been very vocal about what a “real conservative” is and is not. They are leading the “conservative shaming” brigade and laying claim to “High Priests of Conservative Orthodoxy”. And I don’t take kindly to it.
I think it harms us all when anyone claims somebody else is not sufficiently conservative to warrant the “conservative” label. If somebody wants to suffer the arrows to publicly call themselves conservative, it’s best to let them wear it.
I take my definition from Webster’s New World Dictionary (1957). It seems to fit my basic philosophy quite well.