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.
You are correct.
I think there have always been at least two main factions, the economic conservatives and the social conservatives. Sometimes united in either a person or a policy, but there is a Venn diagram that could be drawn with Evangelicals being one circle and free market and libertarians being another circle or two.
“I await National Review’s “The Conservative Case for NAMBLA” article, which I am sure is soon to come.”
Ha! All too true.