Do all these cucks start their articles the same way? Pretending not to know the person they are so envious of. Lying is no way to start an article.
He’s right. I don’t understand the rush to make Milo the poster boy for conservatism. Virtue signalling to the left (Look we can have gays make out onstage AND be a conservative! We aren’t homophobic!) accomplishes nothing.
“Beyond-the-fringe-types” like Milo and Donald Trump are the ones who make a difference.
“Reasonable” types like McCain, Romney, Bush, and etc. at best only slow down the socialists. It takes radicals to turn them back.
As the culture has moved left, some conservatives have acquiesced in the shift by following the path of least resistance.
That’s not conservatism. If you like liberal cultural values, you aren’t a conservative.
And the rejection of Milo shows the importance of reclaiming conservatism as an intellectual and moral force.
Tradition and core values matter - more than ever.
“Conservatives can win elections and govern without beyond-the-fringe types like Milo Yiannopoulos. If they can’t, they don’t deserve to win.”
When your enemy has abandoned all civil principles and gone full “ends justifies the means”, I don’t think you will win unless you are willing to fight back with some dirty tactics yourself. That’s why the Communist revolutionaries were only ever stopped by authoritarians and fascists, not by democratic types.
Optimism is great, but realism is better, because the optimist will eventually be caught off guard and unprepared when his expectations do not match reality, while the realist always has a fall back plan for when things get worse, as they usually do.
“Conservatives can win elections and govern without beyond-the-fringe types like Milo Yiannopoulos. If they can’t, they don’t deserve to win.
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Good lord...
These guys haven’t stopped the left one damn time in the past 25 years.
The only thing we got were rich talk radio hosts, a little clique of snobs at dusty print publications, and people that rather lose and not offend the church ladies than harness the growing anti SJW/feminist/globalist movement among young people to really undermine the global elites and push back against a growing authoritarian left that isnt afraid of the conservative establishment cream puff faux opposition.
These people are utterly clueless, and as that paragraph clearly states, if they cant win by their narrow demands, then they would rather lose.
Because liberty, nation, and western civilization isnt in their interest, but the purity of their righteousness.
I no longer regard myself as a conservative, however he defines it. I regard myself as a nationalist, somebody who cares most about the welfare and future of my own family, kin, and the people I consider part of my culture.
“What Happened to Conservative Optimism?”
Too many RINOs in Congressional leadership positions.
My opinion: Milo was quite the oddity, and despite being invited for the keynote at CPAC (absolutely one of the most stupid things ever) was “tolerated” by conservatives who do not have the reaction (that they are perfectly entitled to AFAIC) on homosexuality. Me? I really do not want to know about his or anyone elses’ proclivities.
He was NEVER a “hero”.
He tickled the dragon’s tail and got his face smashed in. Them’s the breaks. I wasn’t interested in his ascendency and I’m not too interested in his decline. I think there are more important things to deal with. In fact I think almost anything in the universe is a more important thing.
The title of this thread has little nor nothing to do with the Milo saga, which as I posted upthread, I do not believe much of anyone cared about.
“Conservative enthusiasm” IMO has been badly eroded by the realization that; instead of having a tiny (yet not benign) fringe of political and Union-based operatives dedicated to a communist/Marxist takeover of the country as in the 40’s and 50’s...instead of having a bunch of Carter-era goofballs who wanna burn flags and that type of thing....that after 8 years of a viciously anti-American president who laid waste to as many American traditions as possible during his exhaustive tenure....that we now find ourselves with 30+% of the country who just simply hates this place and wants to burn the thing down. Not interested in cooperating, just interested in revenge and destruction.
It is like the realization that instead of having a faucet leak, someone has ripped out the entire plumbing of your house and you have a multi-year grim, expensive and dirty job in front of you and you won’t be able to flush your freaking toilet until you pay the money and do the work and chase the whole thing down.
He's somebody who would prefer to lose, than be less than "pure" in his conservatism. I'm not. I will ally myself with whoever I need to, in order to stop the Left from enslaving my kids and grandkids.
Cal Thomas, Bill Kristol, George Will - all showing their true allegiances...
Oh brother, and Reagan said “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” I think that is the most insulting thing about that group using Reagan in their name. To my knowledge, Milo stayed to attacking the left for their illegal activities and stupid politically correct hypocrisy. He’s been more of republican than many I’ve seen boasting that he should have never been allowed to speak for us.
The conservatism of Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan was about ideas, not emotion and exclusion.
What is that emotional drivel supposed to mean.
I have disliked the term “conservative” for quite a while, and Cal Thomas is one of the reasons. “Exclusion” - wtf....
Clueless Cal
This is the meme of CPAC
the road to amnesty and white guilt and a minority white country
This is why I have zero faith in what used to pass for conservatism
Cal using the lefts labels to bash what got Trump elected
God what a tool he is
Hey Pat you dumb shit
Milo is a Jew.....but don’t let that stop you big dummy
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.