Nonsensical malarkey from another journo running off at the mouth.
The Republican Party, since Freemont ran in 1856, was the errand boy for the Mercantile Class
of the Northern unban centers, which later morphed into the Industrial Class, post-Civil War;
while never promoting sentiments integral to Principled Conservatism.
The latter was expressed in the ideas/thoughts of several of our Founders, in particular Madison
and Monroe, yet these had evaporated by the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
What our scribblers remain blissfully ignorant of, is that Principled Conservatism is a body of
eternal precepts governing human conduct involving attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments,
having trivial to do w/economics, politics or religion, each of which it predates by millennia.
Ancients such as Sargon, Hammurabi, the Greeks, embraced these precepts; later the likes
of Edmund Burke and David Hume, bringing us to Babbitt, Eliot and Russell Kirk in our time.
One of the core reasons we are in our morass is because our "messengers" simply have no message,
as they are little more than ax-grinders repeating economic and political cliché's irrelevant to reality,
while ceaselessly asserting that fat wallets are the salvation/solution of our demise.
