Okay, so this is an obvious litmus test: Do those who are "liberals", in line with John Stuart Mill, the Duke of Wellington, and Robert Peel really have a place among Conservatives who support Trump?I have an admission to make: Trump made me realize that I am not a conservative, but a liberal, yet not a woke neo "progressive."I say that I do: the American 'left wing' has become authoritarian Communist, something that any true American Liberal would be against.
Sorry, (and I don't mean that. I will never say, "sorry" to my own beliefs but for necessary political brownie points), but any real interpretation of an ideal "color blind" society is only found on the American "right wing."
The American Republican Party never "switched" with the Democrats: The "never Trumpers" are basically the the George McClellan losers, and Donald Trump is the "bull in a China shop" (Grant or Sherman) that America needs to defeat the left-wing Neo-Confederates one again pushing a white identitarian agenda.
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Way beyond incoherent.
Our legacy/heritage of attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments was birthed by
Great Britain; from Jamestown in 1607 till the ratification of our Constitution in 1790,
spanning almost 2 centuries.
This produced our Southern Agrarian & Rural Democrats led by Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, among dozens of our Founders.
These were the giants of our past who gave us Principled Governance that allowed
us to survive and thrive as a culture/society.
Sadly, the Democrats were fatally tarred by slavery and unable to survive our Civil War.
The Republican Party began in the North in 1856, as errand boys for the New England
Mercantile Class; then post war becoming the party of the emergent Industrial Class.
This earned them the label; "The Party of Big Business" and nothing has changed since.
Republicans were the Party of strong centralized government, aggressive trade
protectionism and judicial activism; each having absolutely nothing to do w/Principled
Conservatism, not for a day!!! And nothing has changed over the past 160 years!