It does seem that Conservatism, Inc. has outlived its usefulness.
Link to JAG article: https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/10/farewell-to-the-conservative-movement/
lol I love it! NeverTrumpkins!
Absolutely brilliant article
The Cheap Labor Express stooges who masqueraded as Bush League Republicans were never conservative.
They did not even want to conserve the nation.
The “conservatives” never conserved one damned thing, not even marriage or bathrooms.
They were bow-tied principled losers, always retreating, nothing but foils for the left.
Its time for the dissident right, as termed by the Zman blog.
lost me when he called me young and emotionally immature. conservatives tend to be older, and think more for themselves. this guy thinks we’re immature children being led around by slogans and talking points.
You just cost me money! LOL! Many thanks.
A lot of #NeverTrump people are socially liberal.
Others I hope will come around.
They need to start helping because if Trump fails we’re all doomed.
Part of me is sorry for the memory of people like William F. Buckley Jr, who kept a vision of America alive in the midst of the perpetually left-moving progressives. But the quote from Dr. Rice about the terrorists, that they were at war with us before we were at war with them, holds true here as well; the left was fighting a war and we were holding a debate. I would prefer the debate, but we don’t get to choose when an enemy decides to prefer our death and we must fight to oppose it.
Thanks!
Somehow I had assumed “David Kahane” might be related to Meir Kahane.
But the NeverTrumpers don't think of themselves as followers. They think of themselves as leaders of the movement.
I think he makes a valid point. There is much dissatisfaction with "the conservative movement" and its "leaders." Conservatism, Inc. is seen as just another self-seeking, self-satisfied elite.
But I don't think Walsh really has much idea of how politics and parties actually work. Apparently he thinks they can be run just on sheer combativeness and animosity -- and that's not the case.
What we now know as “conservatism” was an amalgam of anti-communist groups that gelled to fight the Cold War. After the Cold War, being against Clinton was enough to sort of hold things together, but the rise of Perot showed the cracks in it very early on. Conservatism, Inc. hasn’t conserved anything at all. I await National Review’s “The Conservative Case for NAMBLA” article, which I am sure is soon to come.
Young right wingers HATE conservatives because they feel they cucked out on the most important war of our times because of their “preenciples” (good one).
“David Kahane”
Ha. IIRC that’s the name of the screenwriter played by Vincent D’Onofrio in the movie “The Player”.
This is an amusing essay. Gets around to making a point that Russell Kirk used to say: “conservatism is the antithesis of ideology”.
Conservatism is being refined for the better by Trumpsters and will not fit the leftist definitions set by the GOP elites like George Will and his moribund, Minnie Mouse ilk. We’re seeing the birth of a new patriot/conservative movement, and it will drive the Rockefeller/Bush/McCain seditionists out of the party.
Trump is blatantly empirical. He’s seeking, by hook or crook, to wrench America back to a stance similar to that in the JFK era except without as much racism. Why? Because America was great. (Remember the Great Society? At least before the idea got swiftly hijacked.)
This isn’t how previous presidential politics has looked at all.
bkmk
Sessions used to get posts at NRO. Somebody should have known.
Too many were political Pharisees who couldn’t find the goal line.
And then there are the hard core globalists who never really were conservative. Many of them made a living out of subverting the conservative movement against its own interests.
I don’t think “Conservative” is a bad word, its just that the Trump Haters never really believed in the original ideas of our nation’s Founders, who envisioned a much smaller government than the one they believe in.
Donald Trump is shaking things up in this country so perhaps we can get ourselves back towards something more conservative down the road.