April 9, 2022
National Review's Kevin Williamson redefines conservatism
By Francis P. Sempa
National Review's Kevin Williamson is urging conservatives to divorce, or at least separate, for a time, from the Republican Party — that is, from the Donald Trump-led Republican Party.
In a recent column, Williamson claims that what he calls "sensible conservatives" twenty years ago or so "could take a realistic, instrumental view of the GOP and find it reasonably useful for our ends." But not today. Not when the Republican Party consists of "vulgar" populists and "infantile" nationalists who loathe free trade, free speech, the U.S. military, and libertarians.
Williamson apparently pines for the GOP of George W. Bush, which fought a "global war on terror" for 20 years, expending American blood and treasure in a doomed effort to spread democracy to the Middle East, of all places; that raised budget deficits to new heights in an effort to be seen as "compassionate" conservatives; that promoted "engagement" with China and thereby helped fuel its rise to economic and military superpower status while benefiting its Wall Street supporters; that promoted immigration "reform" which served as a magnet for illegal aliens to cross the southern border; and that sat idly by while China and Russia grew closer and formed a real "Axis of Evil" that threatens to dominate the Eurasian landmass.
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