Yeah... Stolen slogans really prove the point.
You just don't get it. For some unknown reason you refuse to understand that conservatism is not a group of lofty, intractable principles that only a chosen few comprehend and fight for
@roamer_1 You insist it is something so special, so separate, so unique that only a handful grasp its magnificence.
For a large swath of American citizens, cutting across every region, every economic bracket, every color, every creed "conservatism" is intrinsic because it is the essence of the American spirit. We don't need some smartass political preacher man telling us what it is, how we're bleeping it up or how we should respond to it.
When it comes to politics, conservatism is like porn; Americans know it when they see it.
"Make America Great Again" is conservatism. Donald Trump further distilled it to its essence: "America First". "Make America Great Again" IS a slogan. "America First" is courageous --- and from the gut.
For all you principled conservative preacher men out there who keep insisting Donald Trump had no principles --- stop talking long enough to understand that Donald Trump was the single most principled conservative ever to grace the Oval Office. Everything, bleeping everything this man did promoted and strengthened America First, from: freedom of speech to freedom of religion to freedom of economic security; fair trade deals, secure sovereign borders, the right to life, peace through strength, to we worship God not government and America will never be a socialist nation. THESE are conservative principles.
Had Ronald Reagan followed Donald Trump into the Oval Office you know damn well he would have left untouched: Trump's EOs and international agreements on immigration, NATO's fair share, the end of the Paris Accords, the end of the Iran Deal, the Abraham Accords, the Kosovo-Serbia economic agreement, a defunded Planned Parenthood, a rebuilt military, our energy independence, financial support for colleges with freedom of speech policies, medical right to try, the tax plan, the removal of regulations, the China strategy, and his belief that Americans built this country, in spite of their government; and
they own it, not the swamp.
Had Ronald Reagan followed Donald Trump into the Oval Office he would have known he had awfully large shoes to fill.