Oh yes, Buckley pioneered his own strain of conservatism without a doubt. I take issue with people who seem to think he somehow invented the conservative ideology though, which I’ve seen in some discussions lately (not here). It often seems to come from people who ID as conservatives and want to distance themselves from the right-wing populism of Trump and others. They should just call themselves liberals at this point.
To MAGA that's a feature, not a bug.Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.www.businessinsider.com
Two birds, one stone.
That is fair and I admit I misread that passage I quoted.
The Emancipation Proclamation was probably the biggest executive overreach in US history, but we are pretty OK with it now.
That fits nicely in the broad category of war powers/state of emergency executive overreach, which I agree is necessary, but rife for abuse. One of the reasons all the emergencies Trump declared yesterday concern me.
That’s not good. I think Trump was hoping to raid SS so he and his uber-rich buddies could get another tax break. Now where will he get those funds from? I suppose we will just add it to the deficit.Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.
Obama signed the fewest executive orders per days in office compared to any president who came after Grover Cleveland, who left office in 1897.
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”
Are you trying to facilitate some type of debate as to whether the republican party or democratic party more closely represents political conservatism? not sure what the goal is? Who represents the parties? ZZL posters?
Not to dismiss the tasteless attempt at humor, but I believe OGtruthurts was responding to callatoroy’s comment “Then you don't know what the definition of political conservative is.” which Kingpin had quoted in the previous post.
Those are interesting quotes, since I have thought many, many times that I would gladly vote for a random person drawn from the 315 million Americans to be our president over Donald Trump.
I think he’s just asking you to define what it means to be a conservative. Maybe that’s hard after the enormous expansion and consolidated of federal power, at the expense of personal liberties, that has happened over the last couple of days?
Yep, it comes across as very populist...
By the way, I still think you’re much smarter than the typical right winger who posts here. At some point soon, you’re going to snap out of it and realize what an absolute shitshow you’ve been JCDing.
I'm genuinely perplexed by your change in my perceived level of radicalization of your comments about trump over the last several months (since the election). Is it you hate the man? You hate his agenda? You hate both? Do you hate the man more than the agenda or vice versa? While your comments gave a clear picture that you didn't like trump, they were far more tame. Did you believe kamala was going to win and you wouldn't be faced with the current reality? There could be discussion without it getting sidetracked by trump hatred. He didn't get between the differences on policy.
Someday I'm going to give a compliment like that and quote my own post to do it.
1. I have thought Trump is one of the worst humans on the face of the planet since long before he was a serious candidate for president. I see him as the absolute antithesis of everything my faith teaches me is desirable. Or, to bring it closer to home, he’s the opposite of what I want my son to be.
You accused lawtig, a life-long conservative, and a Republican until Trump, of not understanding what conservatism is.
