For eight years the Rabid Right has whined about what theY perceive as a 'cult of personality' surrounding Barack Obama. And now the presumptive nominee of the GOP is NOTHING but personality.
For eight years now the Rabid Right has railed about what they perceive as inexperienced, unprincipled and irresponsible leadership in the White House. And now the presumptive nominee is Donald Trump who has never held elected office, delivers diatribes about women, POWs, immigrants and Muslims and speaks as if he is shooting from the hip without aiming or forethought.
For years now the Rabid Right has waged a culture war against what they perceive as decadence and a coarsening of the culture. And now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party is Donald Trump; three time divorcee and the embodiment of the toxic sludge of reality television.
This week the Speaker of the House the most powerful elected Republican in the land, has asked for a dialogue with the presumptive nominee. And Sarah Palin, heroine of the Rabid Right, Sarah Palin, the brain trust of the Trump Campaign, is insisting that ideology just doesn't matter anymore.
So one has to ask, in all honesty, is there a viable Conservative movement left in this nation? Do the true Conservatives, who had their fair opportunity to shape the future of the Republican Party have any political clout? Should they be taken seriously by the GOP? By the Trump campaign? By the nation as a whole?
Was there ever a conservative ‘movement’ to begin with – and as with ‘real’ conservative, what constitutes the conservative ‘movement.’
For at least the last 40 years conservativism has been about reactionaryism, the unwarranted fear of change, diversity, and dissent
Conservatism has been about the rise of the bane of the social right and conservatives’ hostility toward the privacy rights of women, the equal protection rights of gay Americans, and settled, accepted Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
Conservatism has been about rekindling nativism and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Conservatism has been about the reckless disregard for necessary, proper, and Constitutional regulatory policy as authorized by the Commerce Clause, and the right’s desire to return to a pre-
Lochner Era legal paradigm endangering the safety of working Americans, the well-being of consumers, and undermining vital environmental protection policies.
And today conservatism continues to pursue its agenda hostile to the protected liberties of citizens by seeking to disadvantage transgender Americans through force of law.
Given these and other manifestations of the conservative ‘movement,’ it’s clear this ‘movement’ is in conflict with the most fundamental principles of our Constitutional Republic.