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 .
