Saturday, September 10, 2016

James Kirkpatrick - VDare: Choosing Collaboration–“True Conservatism” After Trump - Do 'conservatives' like Bill Kristol and George Will know that migration will put them out of business?





The term “true conservative” became a punchline in the 2016 election, after #NeverTrump Conservatism Inc. functionariesconstantly said Trump wasn’t a full member of what they apparently regarded as an Esoteric Reagan Mystery Cult. But it wasn’t always this way. “Conservatism” really did mean something once. It still does to the patriot grassroots struggling desperately to save what’s left of their country. And if there was one person who actually had the right to define who was and was not a “true conservative,” it was the late First Lady of American Conservatism Phyllis Schlafly—who ended her long life as a fierce, and embattled,  supporter of Trump.

Schlafly said a few months ago Donald Trump wasn’t just her choice for president but the “last hope for America”—specifically identifying immigration as a critical issue.  [Phyllis Schlafly: Trump is ‘Last Hope for America’, WND, December 20, 2015] Unlike many of Founding Generation, Schlafly realized, and had been pointing out for years, that mass immigration means the end for conservatism, a national Republican party, and the existence of the American nation itself. ...