2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumApparently the left is to blame for the rise of Trump
The American Revolution, unlike the French Revolution, placed liberty above equality. For the Left, equality is more important than all else. Thats why so many American and European leftists have celebrated left-wing regimes, no matter how much they squelched individual liberty, from Stalin to Mao to Che and Castro to Hugo Chávez. They all preached equality. It took generations, but the Left has succeeded (primarily through the schools, but also through the media) in substituting its values for Americas.
So, then, thanks to leftism and Americas taken-for-granted success, most Americans no longer understand what it means to be an American. Those who do are called conservatives because they wish to conserve the unique American idea. But conservatives now constitute not only a minority of Americans, but a minority of Republicans. That is the primary reason Donald Trump a nationalist but not a conservative is the presumptive Republican nominee.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435195/donald-trump-won-because-many-republicans-arent-conservative
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435195/donald-trump-won-because-many-republicans-arent-conservative
Once again, the GOP never finds itself at fault. Its always something else.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)doc03
(35,431 posts)the Whitehouse a couple years ago.
niyad
(113,771 posts)Sparkly
(24,162 posts)"Nationalist" is a close cousin of "Fascist."
Thanks for posting it!
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)talking about liberty