Is conservatism in crisis?

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“Conservatism has been infected by a kind of curdled resentment of a lot of modern life.” Author and journalist GeorgeWill on “The Economist asks” podcast

, The Economist’s political editor, debate whether the conservatism movement is reorienting into one that chooses populism over prudence and they

Anne McElvoy asks them whether the next generation of conservative leaders will be made in the image of Donald Trump. And, can a baseball nation and a cricket nation unite over conservatism? Runtime: 25 min

 

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Noself74 GeorgeWill 'The British are coming! The British are coming!'

GeorgeWill This is not a new view...The Christian/Fascist movement has been heading in this direction for 40 years, they found their most dispiriting and despicable man in trump...

alllibertynews GeorgeWill It is Progressiveism that is dying... the fact that they are so desperate to destroy the Constitution, the nuclear family and do to the rest of America, what they did to the Black community is why they are collapsing

GeorgeWill

GeorgeWill Is today's interpretation of Burkean conservatism simplistic? Were the socio-economic conditions, knowledge and levels of education in his era different?

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill The challenge for limited Govt and financial disciple is that they are inherently elitist principles. The only way to mask the elitism was with populist, but regressive social philosophies: 1.southern strategy & 2.fundamentalist xtianity. This is the whirlwind you reaped

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill The John Birch Society is an advocacy group supporting anti-communism and limited government. It has been described as a radical right and far-right organization. Businessman and founder Robert W. Welch, Jr. developed an organizational infrastructure in 1958

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill George Will IS curdled resentment. Conservatism today is wrapped in simmering anger over their own self-perceived inferiority. They know in their heart of hearts that they are horrid, but still they go on hating certain peoples, worshipping money, grabbing everything they can.

GeorgeWill Conservatism? Oh, that word the GOP once thought they owned. Complicit, criminal, corrupt, callous, culpable are current descriptions.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill It was always a broken movement, with vaguely fascists leanings from the very beginning.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Oh please the entire ideology is based around serious character flaws Selfish greed, racism, lack of empathy, homophobia for example

PameilaG GeorgeWill Conservatism as I remember it is no more. It's been replaced by bigotry-laced extremism (for lack of a better term).

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Conservatism brought us back to the 18th century It needs to die out

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill It’s dead. Good riddance. In the immortal words of JohnFugelsang Conservatism was always just Billionaires paying Millionaires to tell the Middle Class that poor people were the problem.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill “Conservatism has been taken over by white supremacists.” Fixed that for you.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill what was Newsweek infected with?

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Must be hard watching your party fall apart.

GeorgeWill BTW I'm fully aware conservatism isn't all abt the constitution

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Ronald Reagan stood at the Neshoba County Fair, 7 mi from Philadelphia, MS (Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner) and gave a speech on States' Rights on August 3, 1980. The tombstone's a little late, don't you think?

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Curdled resentment has been Conservatism’s mantra from the drop.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill conservatism for many was what most hid behind I c no1 saying but what abt the constitution

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Conservatism was swallowed whole by Trumpism.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill ”The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Yes

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Trumpism is not conservativism. Trumpism is palingenetic ultranationalism. Palingenetic ultranationalism is fascism. Trumpism is fascism. Stop tiptoeing around this, msm.

MalcolmNance GeorgeWill Conservatism has been taken over by socialists under the disguise of crony capitalism.

GeorgeWill adwooldridge annemcelvoy Where on Earth did you dig George Will from?

GeorgeWill adwooldridge annemcelvoy The time is ripe for the Whigs 2.0: progressive & committed to socially liberal ideas, aggressively pro free-markets & prvt. property, and mortal enemies of entrenched big capital & entitled political interests (ie: the polar opposite of the Tories).

GeorgeWill So what's the cure for this infection? And is a vaccine available?

GeorgeWill That is an interesting diagnosis. What, if anything, has liberalism been infected by?

GeorgeWill NASAhistory Independent TheHinduScience MIT TEDTalks isro NASAGoddard TIME nature Tesla NSF_MPS PopMech Yes. Deeply. It won't work in the modern digital world because internet and connectivity WON'T LET PEOPLE FORGET or be alone. So it must die. It will, too.

GeorgeWill Pirates, Slavery, Empire, Charlie III, Death

GeorgeWill It has been hijacked by the deplorable, simpleton, MAGA white supremacy base.

GeorgeWill George is willing to blame anything except conscious malice for the destruction of conservatism.

DSORennie GeorgeWill More like a renouncement of reason and logic.

GeorgeWill Timcast the left biased journos are losing it! LOL

GeorgeWill This is so true.

GeorgeWill not like there’s a huge chasm on the left or anything 😂

GeorgeWill It failed to conserve anything. Little wonder they resent how things ended up.

GeorgeWill We like our culture and we want to keep it. Profits for the elite aren't reason enough for us to give it up.

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