I have to admit that I'm a bit embarrassed to realize it wasn't just the leftists who were guilty of implementing cancel culture. It's us too. There's a sense of purity regarding conservatism that has determined that anything less just won't be tolerated within those conservative circles. Failure to stay within the lines means you're doomed to conservative Siberia.
Few can out-conservative me (although several have tried), but I understand what it means to live in the real world with all the limitations it presents. I'm not a big Trump fan, but I'm not going to offer up the helm to leftists just to make my point. Especially after seeing the breakneck speed at which they're tearing down our republic. They're desperate and are eager to make hay while they have the power. My intention is to do what I can to prevent it. I'd love to have help from other conservatives, but there are many who are so self-righteously holy in their political stances that they seem unbothered by allowing the Dems to continue their destruction for 4 more years. Maybe the only difference between us is that they believe America will survive the Dems. I don't.
Speaking for myself only, I don’t expect purity. I don’t even agree with my own wife on everything.
But there are certain principles that to me, as a conservative, are unshakable. And that is the size and scope of the federal government. When Donald Trump took office, the economy was fairly stable and growing. But when a crisis hit, he did what government has been doing the last several decades , and that is just throw trillions of dollars at it and hope for the best. Any conservatives that questioned tossing out the massive Covid cash was attacked by him.(Thomas Massie). When he restricted travel from China in the early days of the virus, I did support him on that.
The tea party first sprouted from the bailouts during the George W. Bush’s last few months. Conservatives used to be against that. We had to bail out farmers and the oil companies not because of their bad business decisions, but because of Donald Trump’s policy decisions. And he’s promising to be worse in his second term. Inflation and the debt are going to be a bigger issue in the coming years and neither Donald Trump or Joe Biden are concerned.
And it’s obvious from Donald Trump’s statements that he hasn’t learned much from his first term and has no interest in learning about the workings of government, especially the executive branch. As a conservative, I just can’t vote for that. I wouldn’t tolerate any of that from a Democrat. I made a list in this thread of things that economically and fiscally Donald Trump screwed up in his first term which upset a couple of his supporters here. But we would condemn to Hell any Democrat or even any other Republican with that record. Why does Donald Trump get a pass?
As far as this country surviving Democrats, we survived war, a Civil War, economic upheavals , civil unrest… we will survive Democrats. Democrats are mortal human beings. They are not super men or women.
