Trump became president because of social conservatives, not social liberals.
Posted on 08/11/2022 8:41:24 AM PDT by Signalman
I don’t buy that excuse about the national security acts after 9/11 being responsible for the raid or the spying. A left-wing FISA court approved the spying for example.
I would like to believe him….but meanwhile we are sitting ducks waiting for the soon to be newly hired IRS sharp shooters to find us.
(Obama himself was still against gay marriage at the start of his presidency.)
I was never fooled by his intentions. So many bought in to the hype.
(The Bush presidency, of course, turned out to be a major disaster)
Yep
(Parents take their kids to drag queen shows)
I can’t imagine what’s wrong with these parents except that they have turned Godless.
Luke 17:28-32
There is so much misinformation dribbled in among boomercon talking points.
Lot of conservatives did fight the culture wars. Phyllis Schlafly killed the ERA. The Moral Majority held back the gay lobby for a while. The Christian Coalition gave us DOMA. The continuing actions of the Pro-Life lobby eventually resulted in the overturning of Roe v Wade.
It's interesting that Kirk has only positive attitudes toward Buchanan and Trump. They are both populist conservatives, which isn't the majority position among conservatives, or at least it wasn't through much of the history of America since the end of WWII.
Instead we got right libertarianism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, and military-industrial-complex conservatism. Libertarianism turns a blind eye to illegal immigration and the offshoring of jobs to the Turd World. Neoconservatism gave us endless useless wars. Social conservatism demanded prudish and narrowminded candidates who could at best win only congressional elections. MIC conservatism only enabled the neoconservatives.
The Tea Party was the beginning of the turn toward populism, but it was dragged down by the libertarians and social conservatives who rode its coattails.
But there is no certainty that populism will survive long. Populism has always been feared by the left and the other conservative factions to devolve into racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia. There is also the weakness of populism in that it requires a popular and charismatic leader to energize enough people to rally around the cause. Trump is definitely that leader, but who will it be when he leaves the stage?
I call that legislation "The Tax Accountant Employment Act of 2022."
I have no doubts these hires will be based on diversity as the primary qualification. IOW, the IRS will be hiring people with minimal math skills, and their technology skills come from playing Call of Duty on a computer. They'll likely be started out at GS-7, and the IRS is noted for slow promotions.
Contrast that to the FDIC, who ramped up hiring during the bank crisis in 2008. Their hires were on two-year term contracts, with an FDIC option for two more. Due to my lack of banking experience, I had to apply for a GS-7 position to get my foot in the door.
I wasn't a 7 for long. Within 10 months I was a GS-13, and on the selection list for a GS-14. Thanks to those promotions, I worked there for nearly 5 years, and those were all great years.
If I could have landed a permanent position, I'd still be there...great agency, good people and leadership.
Nice to hear your history….
….but it’s not calming
From what we’re experiencing by ‘those who rule by intimidation and harm’….
…we should expect…soon…that they will have ( or already has) unprincipled, trained marksmen ready to take these positions ….and use them on…..us!
Victory may come from somewhere but I am positive of where it will not come from.....a ballot box.
He’s doing an excellent show on RAV right now.
Apparently there are so many boomers still working at the IRS that within 5 years, they will retire. These are their replacement. Keep in mind the 87,000 isn’t fully implemented until 2030.
Sorry, but the leftists win this battle. America doesn’t stand a chance. Its prophecy. God wins in the end, but we’re on the road to one world government.
You are 100% correct on that
You sure dislike social conservatism, Reagan, the Tea Party which was actually made up of social conservatives, not social liberals like you social liberals kept trying to claim, you left out that libertarianism is radical social liberalism.
The difference between California and Texas and why GOP California fell so easily to the left and why Democrat Texas only became more conservative, is that California Republicans were social liberals and had little to fight the left with, while Texas social conservative democrats became right wing republicans.
Social conservatism is the measure of durability against liberal seductions, social liberalism is McCain/Romney.
It was not about preventing gay marriage, criminalizing abortion, etc. It only became that later when all of the socon associations like the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition petered out and the socons joined the only standing conservative organization.
Regardless of what Reagan was, his administration was thoroughly neoconservative. You can read about the wars between paleoconservatives and neoconservatives trying to control the agenda of the Reagan administration, and the neocons ultimately prevailing.
Reagan might have agreed with Russell Kirk, but his administration didn't.
Even today many socons refuse to support Trump because he had three wives and is not a prudish, narrowminded, fundamentalist Christian.
The socons might be correct on many policies, but they have a bad habit of supporting candidates who have little appeal, and if they ever do achieve some level of political success those candidates eventually say something that horrifies the general public or are outed as a having a mistress or being a secret homosexual.
I don’t think the left ever had the people. It appears that way because they control the media and academia, exposing the country to nothing but non-stop leftist ideas. Throw in the dems chicanery of compromising our election system to give themselves the edge at the polls, and they have the appearance of being the majority.
Then you obviously missed his point. The National Security Acts should never have been passed since any Acts approved by the Govt. can and will be abused by the very govt. that approved it.
It is social liberals who keep the left gaining control over America and who are the weakest republicans and who lost us California.
Reagan won because social conservatives knew he was one also, whereas pro-abortion Carter proved to be not one.
The Tea Party was made up mostly of social conservatives.
Pew Research: “Support for the Tea Party varies dramatically across religious groups. Surveys from November 2010 through February 2011 show that white evangelical Protestants are roughly five times as likely to agree with the movement as to disagree with it (44% vs. 8%), though substantial numbers of white evangelicals either have no opinion or have not heard of the movement (48%). Three-in-ten or more of white Catholics (33%) and white mainline Protestants (30%) also agree with the Tea Party, but among these two groups at least one-in-five people disagrees with the movement.
Among the unaffiliated, more than four-in-ten (42%) disagree with the movement while 15% agree with it. About two-thirds of atheists and agnostics (67%) disagree with the movement.
The Patriot Act and AUMF weren’t abused at the time. The CIA and FBI had a wall between them leading to the 9/11 attack. These are people leftover from the Obama Admin who want to stop Trump.
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