Reply #20: Compassionate conservatism is neither a doctrine nor a failure [View All]

[GuvWurld]

Compassionate conservatism was a propagandistic frame adopted to sell radical policies. It worked. Many swallowed it. The rest, like us, choked on it and immediately coughed it back up. The noise we were making was pretty effectively drowned out, but not so much anymore. Now we're hearing retching sounds from all quarters. This resistance, to whatever extent it is or will be successful, is not evidence of a failed doctrine. The compassionate conservative frame is hardly even invoked anymore. Compassionate conservatism is not what we are overcoming because it never really existed except as a made up label to confuse and distract the masses from what was really happening. So, I submit that compassionate conservatism is neither a doctrine nor a failure and we should not do anything to reinforce the notion that fascists ever genuinely ran such a program.