Highlights from an article in the Federalist by John Daniel Davidson from Heather Cox Richardson's daily summary - letters from an American (not my vision of America, living freely - but his, which is frightening) In The Federalist, senior editor John Daniel Davidson announced, “We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives.” “The conservative project has failed,” he wrote, “and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment.” Western civilization is dying, he wrote, and to revive it, those on the right should “start thinking of themselves as radicals, restorationists, and counterrevolutionaries. Indeed, that is what they are, whether they embrace those labels or not.” They should, he said, stop focusing on the free-market economics and supply-side principles of the Reagan years and instead embrace the idea of wielding government power as “an instrument of renewal in American life… a blunt instrument indeed.” Davidson embraces using the power of the government to enforce the principles of the right wing, bending corporations to their will, starving universities that spread “poisonous ideologies,” getting rid of no-fault divorce, and subsidizing families with children. “Wielding government power,” he writes, “will mean a dramatic expansion of the criminal code.” Abortion is murder and should be treated as such, parents who take their children to drag shows “should be arrested and charged with child abuse,” doctors who engage in gender-affirming interventions “should be thrown in prison and have their medical licenses revoked,” “teachers who expose their students to sexually explicit material should not just be fired but be criminally prosecuted.” “The necessary task is nothing less than radical and revolutionary,” he writes. And for those worrying that the assumption of such power might be dangerous, “we should attend to it with care after we have won the war.” We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives (thefederalist.com)
Authoritarian, nationalistic, militaristic. Obsessed with racial and ideological purity. A smirking disdain for democracy, a free press, or an independent judiciary. Scapegoating of minorities. Overtly racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. Promotion of a merger of State and corporate power. Encouragement of political violence against perceived domestic enemies. There's a much more accurately descriptive noun for the modern Conservative movement. Fascism.
Funny, Conservatism is only a flimsy mask for Fascism, Hypocrisy, Austerity, anti Democracy and Rascism , socially engineered by American Oligarchs. Trump took the mask off .
Trump is proving that Corporate Fascism / Conservatism has proven that Equality, the Constitution, Democracy and the Rule of Law is in their way in establishing an Kleptocratic KKKorporate Oligarchy. Notice that our forum's little Fascist Ninnies, don't want to post on this thread or any like it on this forum ?
Musk is South African where apartheid , an authoritarian political structure which was popular for quite a while. Well--for white folks. Surly none of his behavior or ideas come from that. No. Of course not. Trump would never stand for that.
Trump's KKKULT followers are brain dead idiots , that invested their whole identities in a pathetic idiot.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
I balk at calling Trump and the MAGA movement "conservative"--unless that's become a synonym for right wing radical. I tend to be conservative in the way I manage my money--conservative in being "marked by moderation or caution." I'm also pretty conservative in my lifestyle. I don't drink alcohol, smoke, or do drugs, nor gamble, and my idea of a good time is going to Bible study. I realize that in the realm of politics, the term "conservative" has taken on a special meaning: in the U.S.,favoring getting government off of our backs and into our bedrooms. But until the past decade, it included a respect for the Constitution,governmental institutions, and the rule of law. Ronald Reagan, until recently the conservative paragon, favored free trade, standing up to Russia, preserving NATO, and in his farewell address, reminded American how important immigrants are to our country. Times have sure changed, but for the sake of clarity of thought in our Orwellian world, I think it's useful to call a spade a spade and a radical a radical: "associated with political views, practices, and policies of extreme change." Definition of RADICAL
