@petersuderman @NoahCRothman The spectre of Trump the Nazi. This is patent exaggeration; quasi-conservative pearl-clutching. Besides saying words you don’t like, what has Trump done that frightens you, @noahcrothman ?
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman 2/ Your “devotion to ideas” has already ceded vast political ground to leftism. Trump’s rhetoric exposes the left in a way so-called decent people never would. Political expertise is not an American value. It is a blight on our liberties. Trump is exposing it and rooting it out.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman What you seem to fail to recognize is that the Left declared war over 100 years ago, and what they want is the elimination of individial liberty. When the Left declares war, and the right fails to pick up arms, is that conservatism?
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman No, I don’t blindly and completely embrace Trump. But he does not frighten me at all. Always the defenders of freedom are few. You paint Trump with a pejorative brush of your own prejudice. In so doing, you entirely miss the significance of the moment in our national story
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman A handful of skinheads use Trump to justify their hate. Trump is not appealing to them, even if they are opportunists. To say that he is is a tendentious reading of his rhetoric. He’s appealing to many constituencies.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman First among them, in my view, is the patriot who embraces America First, Make America Great Again. How many are reminded and attracted by that term based on an historical detour? I believe it’s approximately zero.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman We recognize what the left is doing - and what “conservative political professionals” are failing to effectively resist. They want the USA preserved as a sovereign nation with its unique commitment to basic, God-given individual rights. The Left opposes that with ferocity.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman Trump’s constituencies, those of any remote consequence, want no part of the sort of nationalism you describe. Trump is no tyrant. He’s an entertainer and a deal-maker. He gives the people what they want.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman Most of us don’twant to surrender, which is precisely what the even-Hillary-is-better-than-Trump crowd among conservatives were, and still are, willing to do. Medicare for All is a hill worth dying on, as far as I’m concerned. It would be the beginning of the end of a free USA.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman Hyperbole? It could be. I’m obviously speculating and I’m no prognosticator. I view the US as being, say 30 to 50 years behind Europe and Canada vis a vis surrender to the totalitarian left. I’m confident of victory, but there’s little doubt the US is the last bastion.
@petersuderman @NoahCRothman Trump is an episode in America saying hell no, we are not letting the sun set on freedom. You enderestimate us, as you continue to underestimate Trump. Victory is going to require people of ideas. Don’t waste your persuasive rhetoric on an imagined enemy.
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