Pure conservatism is not electable in America any more. Unless you have the right spokesperson to articulate those ideas.
Ted Cruz is 100 percent “NOT” that person!
I disagree conservatism can win...... but Ted Cruz is duplicitous fake
and it also depends on what strains of conservatism you’re offering....
Reagan conservatism at its heart was nationalistic and populist..... if I was to call it anything I call it John Wayne conservatism
so just as the nation faces different challenges at different times conservatism needs to fit offer different solutions at different times
our battle now is not like in the 1980s with the Soviet Union and Soviet communist expansionism
our battle now and this point in time.... is with International globalism and the loss of sovereignty of this nation ....
of being swallowed up and destroyed by illegal immigration and unfair trade.... Trump is highlighting those problems
The GOPe and Ted Cruz are being lackeys to the business interest that are destroying this country and wrapping in a flavor doctrinaire conservatism that has some of the worst of domestic libertarianism ... and International interventionism
Libertarians in theory are pure opens borders pure open trade and if it just happens to destroy the country so be it
the international interventionism wanting us to constantly try and be Nation Builders around the world again breaking our back on that
.... that’s not founding fathers constitutionalism....
at the time of the founding... tariffs on trade common tools of the founding fathers and they were quite against International intervention “ Washington= “beware foreign entanglements”