{"id":6708,"date":"2016-01-23T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/trumps-traction-and-conservative-inaction\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T05:14:17","slug":"trumps-traction-and-conservative-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/trumps-traction-and-conservative-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Traction and Conservative Inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump's 'traction' is largely due to conservative inaction.  I leave aside for the moment that other source of Trumpian traction: the abominations of the Obama administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservatives are long on talk but short on action.  Donald Trump, an alpha male with the billions to be beholden to no one, whose style of self-presentation is reminiscent of il Duce<\/em>, has populist appeal because he looks to be someone who might finally get at least one thing done, say, stem the invasion of illegals from the south.  And stop talking about it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What have conservatives accomplished since the days of Ronald Reagan? <\/span><\/p>\n

And yet the conservative case against Trump<\/a> is devastating.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a severely practical consideration: there is no way Trump can beat Hillary.  He has alienated too many groups, women and Hispanics to name two.  Add to that the fact that large numbers of conservatives will stay home, and Hillary is in like Flynn.  Mark my words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let's hope that Trump does not get the Republican nomination.  But if he gets it, you must vote for<\/em> him.  For the alternative is far worse.  Politics is a practical business.  It is not about maintaining your ideological purity, but about getting something accomplished in murky and complex circumstances.  It is always about the lesser or least of evils.  Trump would be bad, but Hillary worse.  <\/span><\/p>\n

While the 'bow-tie brigade' at National Review<\/em> and the rest of the conservatives are so right about so much, they are too concerned with being respectable members of the establishment to know how to fight against the Alinskyite left.  Hence their measured statements, their pious invocation of the Constitution, their refusal to give as good as they get.  They don't realize that politics is not a gentlemanly debate, but war conducted by other means.       <\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump's 'traction' is largely due to conservative inaction.  I leave aside for the moment that other source of Trumpian traction: the abominations of the Obama administration. Conservatives are long on talk but short on action.  Donald Trump, an alpha male with the billions to be beholden to no one, whose style of self-presentation is … Continue reading “Trump’s Traction and Conservative Inaction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}