Unfortunately, conservatism is in the woods at the moment. We normals have to watch the commie-NAZI street fights and wonder if it's Wiemar all over again. We know how that ends, the fools cheering it on don't seem to understand it.
With all due respect, I think you may be rescripting the morbid fantasies of the far left. The term "in the woods" implies a generalized and potentially growing problem. Though that description certainly applies to the Democrat party, it hardly does to the GOP ( their own problems with inconsistent alignment with conservatism notwithstanding).
The Berkeley fracas was an example of what happens when law enforcement sits on its hands. I'm also inclined to believe that there was some willful neglect going on with the cops (who are all politically aligned with their bosses) because they hoped that any violence would be blamed mostly on the Trump supporters.
That being said, political demonstrations are announced beforehand and broadcast on social media, so that gives all of the yammerheads who are more focused on looking for trouble (such as white supremacists, meth heads etc) plenty of advanced warning so that they can do their own version of "networking" and show up in force to enjoy what they do best - engage in violence.
That is no more indicative of a political party or political faction (conservatives) being "in the woods" than would be any other singular event involving people who are only marginally representative of a "movement" if that.
The GOP just raised more money in the first quarter of fund raising than any other in history ($41 million). That does not demonstrate evidence of a movement that is "in the woods".
It is probably more accurate to state that in light of the fairly successful first 100 days in office of DJT, those who despise him and who have aligned against him for personal or doctrinaire ideological reasons are the ones "in the woods" wandering in search of...what? Impeachment? A lightening strike? An assassin with good aim or a knack for making a lucky shot?
Here are some of DJT's accomplishments which are, in the opinion of Hugh Hewitt, unmatched by any president since FDR.
Use of the Congressional Review Act to undo 18 major regulations of the Obama regime. This has already resulted in tens of billions of dollars in savings to the American people. What is one of the best things about this is that the bureaucracy can't unring the bell. Trump has used the legislative authority of Congress (with the help of GOP Congressional leaders) to make it so not even a democrat president could easily go back to the sort of reckless ultra vires excesses of the Eightball Obama. He has changed the LAWS, which supersede the authority of bureaucrats. Even more delicious, the CRA was originally enacted by Slick Willie himself, as a means to neutralize GOP influence. heh heh Nice move, Willie.
- Calling out the Obama administration on spying during the 2016 campaign. Many have tried to paint this as an error, but this is IMO a perfect example of how Trump crushed the leftist mass media during the campaign. He says things that the mass media tries to then use against him by portraying them as stupid, then have it slap them back in the face when SURPRISE SURPRISE, they turn out to be correct. So in the case of illegal 'Crat political spying by the White House. The revelation that Susan Rice herself and others used NSA intercepts to spy on the Trump administration (under tissue-thin pretense of "national security") will turn out to do huge damage to the 'Crats politically as the investigation moves forward. Before this is over, the leftist mass media will wish to God that they had resisted the temptation to try to exploit Trump's initial statement. It's clear that they did spy illegally using the power of the White House to do it. The only question will be how much and how egregious? The voting public will not care about nuances. Though the media and politicians will try to make the investigation about minutiae, the story that will have legs and remain in the collective consciousness will be that Trump was essentially correct in every sense that matters - he and his campaign were spied on illegally by the DNC and the Obama regime's top officials. Selah.
- Bombing Syria and confronting the Norks - Another controversial move by the Trump administration will end up as a strong plus when all is said and done. The public understands that in the real world, one is either leading or following. Trump has made it his policy that the U.S. A. will once again lead the free world in every sense and that the "lead-from-behind" duplicitous faggotry of the previous eight years is now a thing of the past. People wanted change in that regard and he is giving it to them.
Gorsuch confirmation - Trump took on Schumer head-on and treated him like the blubbering, feckless boob he is. Trump never took any of the 'Crat threats seriously. The 'Crat finger-shivering about causing trouble if Trump didn't withdraw the Gorsuch nomination drew yawns of boredom. DJT blithely called Schumer's bluff and it turned out that the 'Crats were drawing to an inside straight - not even a pair of deuces to show. Trump got the 'Crats to go for broke to stop the unstoppable. He invited them to force McConnell to behave like a vertebrate, and the Crats took the bait hook, line and sinker. Schumer forced the Senate leader to follow through in response to his threats, by invoking the Reid Rule. Now every nominee the GOP puts forth will be approved on an up-or-down vote in the Senate. Selah! Schumer took Reid's blunder and boosted it like Ted Nugent with a stack of Marshall amplifiers. Schumer proved that the 'Crats have no strategery (sic). Their strategery(sic) is to blunder around like idiots without any strategery(sic). Brilliant.
