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Conservatism’s ‘Three-Legged Stool’ Has No Legs Left

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LMAO:

--- Quote from: goatprairie on April 26, 2024, 05:07:28 pm ---It's one thing to argue against sending money to Ukraine, but it's quite another to argue that Vladimir Putin is some sort of hero to be admired by the right.
Putin is basically an authoritarian thug. His KGB past should have been a red flag as was his comment about the collapse of the Soviet Union being the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
Anybody in the SU who stands up to Putin ends up in prison or dead.

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 :thumbsup:

Maj. Bill Martin:

--- Quote from: goatprairie on April 26, 2024, 05:07:28 pm ---It's one thing to argue against sending money to Ukraine, but it's quite another to argue that Vladimir Putin is some sort of hero to be admired by the right.
Putin is basically an authoritarian thug. His KGB past should have been a red flag as was his comment about the collapse of the Soviet Union being the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
Anybody in the SU who stands up to Putin ends up in prison or dead.

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After reading this article, the infatuation much of MAGA has with Putin makes perfect sense.   Because if you take limited government and free markets out of conservativism, and it becomes just a war against the left, why not have Putin?

LMAO:

--- Quote from: Maj. Bill Martin on April 26, 2024, 10:39:15 pm --- Because if you take limited government and free markets out of conservativism, and it becomes just a war against the left, why not have Putin?

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Yup

unite for individuality:

--- Quote from: corbe on April 26, 2024, 04:10:35 pm ---Erick Erickson is wrong about the right, wrong about conservatism, and hopelessly out of touch with political reality.

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I can't quite make out what point the original article is trying to make.

My local radio station carries Erick Erickson's program.
He's a good, solid conservative - most of the time.
But sometimes he's RINOiest RINO in The Swamp.
He reminds me of a poker player who bluffs five percent of the time.
He tells the truth most of the time, but apparently does that
just to keep up his credibility, so people will believe him when he lies.

He claims that there was nowhere enough fraud in the 2020 election to reverse the outcome.
He claims that Dinesh D'Sousa's movie  2000 Mules  has been "debunked."
He recited his "proof" of the "debunking" so fast that no one could catch what he said,
and so therefore could not analyze it.

Erick Erickson spent most of his career as a political consultant -
an employee of The Swamp.
He appears to still be working for The Swamp.
He often smears real conservatives as "wacko lunatics."
He supports Republican politicians who support conservatism 95% of the time,
but cave on the few actions that would REALLY make a difference.

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