Bethany Mandel: What Does It Mean to Be a Conservative in the Age of Trump?
2nd January 2019
Sure, yeah, go ahead, read the articles, watch the hand-wringing and distribute the crying towels. I’ll wait.
Back? Good. I’d like to pose a question of my own: Who the Hell cares what it means to ‘be a conservative’ in the The Age of Trump? Who. The. Hell. Cares?
- There is no Age of Trump. Trump is President and is doing stuff that is shaking the box like there’s no tomorrow; that’s not just an issue for conservatives but for everybody. He is not the leader of a movement, he was not thrown onto the national scene by mobs in the streets or an intellectual wave that swept the nation; he’s just a guy who was fed up with what he saw going on and managed to connect with a bunch of people who felt the same way and have been ignored for a long long time. He’s not Lenin, he’s Jack Cade. There is no Age of Trump.
- Trump is not a conservative, as he and the staff of every think tank in Washington will gladly tell you, so he has nothing to do with what it ‘means to be a conservative’, in the Age Of Trump or anytime else. Most ‘conservatives’ who are involved in politics are worse than Marxists for trying to define who is In With The In Crowd and who is not; this is just intellectual masturbation and these people have too much time on their hands. Get a life.
- President is a job. Either you like the job he’s doing or you don’t. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.
Sheesh. These people….