Halloween may have just passed, but Donald Trump wasn’t wearing a costume when he worked at McDonald’s, stepped into that garbage truck, or when former Democratic presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard joined his campaign. Nor was it a disguise when Elon Musk and Joe Rogan helped Trump champion free speech.
This is as real as it gets. This is the kind of identity realignment that happens when one party openly supports tampons in the boys’ locker room while branding Republicans as Nazis or garbage. It also reflects the frustration with a pre-Trump GOP that failed to push back against such rising evil in the past.
We have no excuse if we abandon the fight or let it unfold without us.
This is a massive paradigm shift, whether you want it or not. If ideologues like me hope to join the fight ahead, we must come to terms with this new reality. Conservatism, as we inherited it, stands hollow as a stand-alone movement capable of challenging the spirit of the age.
For instance, where would we direct an outsider president with hundreds of thousands of federal positions to fill for the trusted manpower and expertise needed — especially after our failures to make headway in 2016, 2020, and 2022? Remember Mike Pence? Unchecked voter fraud? The “red wave” that never came? Ring a bell? The old-guard GOP sucked. […]
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