(February 6, 2018 at 12:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: As I've been watching the slow moving trainwreck that is american politics, I've started to ask a question that's popping up front and center now that midterms are getting close. Is conservatism dead? Has the message that the republican party spent decades crafting...regardless of it's truth, been completely shitcanned?
How will the republican party run on a law and order ticket going forward?
How will the republican party run on a fiscal conservative platform going forward?
How will the republican party run a morality and ethics campaign going forward?
How will the republican party expand it's base with minorities and women going forward?
How will the republican party cast itself as the party of the middle class going forward?
How will the republican party brand itself as the party of small business going forward?
How will the republican party be the cheerleaders for free markets going forward?
How will the republican party insist that it is the party of american idealism and patriotism going forward?
I'm not asking, in any of the above..if they were ever -true- to any of their campaign rhetoric, I'm asking how a candidate will be able to make a compelling case for any of the above from within the rapidly deteriorating framework that was the GOP? I've been wondering this since Bush the Younger, and it's only become more pronounced in the interim..the final straw on so many fronts being this past year. Where is the opposition to the erosion of all of the time, and labor, and money in messaging?
In short..where are the conservatives?
My best guess is they will do all those things shamelessly in the smug confidence that their low information base won't realize the inconsistency anyhow.
