Post AFy1WecwPRAF0I9Rzs by PonySoldier@social.quodverum.com
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(DIR) Post #AFxyB2YGTh6eyGxxcu by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T12:46:32Z
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@PonySoldier When the Trump campaign started, it was pretty confusing to me, because I consider myself a "conservative Republican." And I had the same concerns as many, about whether Donald Trump was merely trying to pose as a conservative, or was a (😆 ) "stalking horse for Hillary Clinton." (I recall a prominent meme from back then: "This man [Trump] is running only to get this woman elected [Hillary]")
(DIR) Post #AFxyelm9PoIBd2dZdw by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T12:51:54Z
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@PonySoldier I was a Ted Cruz supporter, but when Donald Trump won the nomination, I fell in line like a good party loyalist. But I still didn't understand Trump's ideology, because it wasn't "conservatism" as I understood it, and as promulgated by the conservative "movement" going back to Reagan (when I'd first become politically aware). Some "movement" conservatives still can't get over that, and have effectively been driven insane by this.
(DIR) Post #AFxzEIazNpLdYNMGbA by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T12:58:20Z
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@PonySoldier These few media figures and elected officials have hung on as the remnant "Never Trump" people, and many have proven by their actions to have been opportunistic "conservatives," even as President Donald Trump proved by his actions that he wasn't kidding about the policies he wanted to enact, which were conservative policies. But unlike the "movement" conservatives who opposed Trump, I eventually figured out what Donald Trump's ideology is ...by listening to him.
(DIR) Post #AFxzmgsPc658hnuHke by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:04:32Z
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@PonySoldier I wrote about it back when I commented at University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynold's "Instapundit." Donald Trump is not a conservative, though his ideology implements some of what "movement" conservatives advocated for over the decades. President Trump's ideology doesn't fit into the "liberal" vs. "conservative" paradigm that had existed for so long, which was why it was so hard for me to figure out at first, since it's orthogonal to that traditional axis.
(DIR) Post #AFy00TZVsRzTUmdlUu by PonySoldier@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:07:01Z
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@darulharb Trump's Populism drifts from conservatism on trade and wars and is the right path. Restoring the manufacturing base is jobs. Ending wars is smart. RINO's wanted slave labor, shipping plants offshore, and dictatorial military. Trump smashed those losing policies for the betterment of the country. It's why he brought back the working class "bluedogs" among others who never were Republicans. America First is a winning agenda. He actually took it from Pat Buchanan...
(DIR) Post #AFy0I8kM2kIC7V8Nv6 by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:10:14Z
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@PonySoldier The best description for it that I could come up with is "national greatness." Really, it was staring me right in the face back then, but I was concerned with the debate over whether or not Donald Trump was a "conservative." He makes it even more obvious now with his rally speech line "it's time to start talking about greatness for our country again." President Trump's "national greatness" ideology is functionally conservative in many respects, because it's pragmatic.
(DIR) Post #AFy0nc1rDqXjulKPZI by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:15:55Z
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@PonySoldier The policies of the political left are rejected not because they don't fit with conservative ideology, but because they're proven to not achieve the objective. They don't work.No question that Donald Trump's becoming standard bearer of the Republican Party was a "hostile takeover," because his MAGA movement was a reaction of the base to the fact that the party wasn't doing what voters, especially conservative voters, wanted.
(DIR) Post #AFy1U8QTA4UmYR7Hto by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:23:36Z
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@PonySoldier At the same time, it is a reaction to the increasing ivory-tower radicalization of the Democrats, who moved away from Bill Clinton's "New Democrat" left center radicalism, to the academic racial radicalism of Barack Obama's Chicago machine. The corruption of nearly all our major institutions which Donald Trump's candidacy exposed, and which has been even further exposed by the stress of the COVID pandemic, has shattered the traditional allegiances of many voters.
(DIR) Post #AFy1WecwPRAF0I9Rzs by PonySoldier@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:24:03Z
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@darulharb Tax cuts, gutting regulation, opening Energy exploration, ending Illegal Immigration, law and order agenda, strong military, reducing government, supporting Israel, wiping out ISIS, tough on Russia. It doesn't get any more conservative than that. Trump's break from traditional conservatism on trade and stopping wars was spot on. He brought the jobs back and ending spending trillions on wars with little benefit. Scum like Kinzinger and L Cheney are marginalized and withering away
(DIR) Post #AFy1kBmATS41ZrvAMS by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T13:26:30Z
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@PonySoldier We don't know what the result will be yet, but American politics are going to be different going forward, because of the "national greatness" ideology of Donald Trump and the insane reaction to it. Let's see what happens.
(DIR) Post #AFy4stnIzxweHFIX9E by Linnie@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T14:01:41Z
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@darulharb Excellent deduction!!!
(DIR) Post #AFy6D10nyMj6PNlhUu by StevenDouglas@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T14:16:32Z
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@PonySoldier @darulharb It's no wonder they see Trump as a Napoleon archetype. He found LOADS of discarded Democrat crowns on the ground, picked them up and redirected them.Democrats "for workers" voter appeal was pretty much limited to support of unions, raising the minimum wage, child care tax credits, etc.,.LITTLE appeal to the majority of blue collar workers by a long shot.It got so bad that union MEMBERS defied their unions in support of Trump.Still huge.https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/22/blue-collar-midwest-rust-belt-union-members-support-donald-trump-despite-joe-biden-endorsements/
(DIR) Post #AFyAW5anZ9zXvvxFQW by leslied_g@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:04:48Z
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@darulharbThe best is yet to come! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @PonySoldier
(DIR) Post #AFyAsHIyhRKed8CRge by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:08:49Z
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@StevenDouglas @PonySoldier And it's evident from the results of the "engagement" policy with Communist China that they've become stronger, while our industrial base has been hollowed out. The exact opposite approach to the economic warfare President Reagan used to defeat the Soviet Union and win the Cold War.
(DIR) Post #AFyBahYSSu5qmechAO by StevenDouglas@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:16:50Z
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@darulharb @PonySoldier Yeah, I NEVER put any stock in, "We can win them over with capitalism. Why, they'll see how our common economic interests align and get right in line ideologically!"A snake is a snake. We knew that they were snakes when we let them in. Not the Chinese people, who I grew to love very much, but the many-snaked CCP Gorgon that rules over them.
(DIR) Post #AFyC9hKfHgR6EGrJwG by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:23:09Z
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@StevenDouglas @PonySoldier The Chinese Communist Party, for their part, looked at the results of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempted "perestroika" and political reform in the Soviet Union, and also chose to do the opposite. Economic reform first, and little if any political reform. Xi is now trying to ratchet back to the old days of Maoism, but with himself as the Great Helmsman.
(DIR) Post #AFyCaYZnwirOtNkQCG by darulharb@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:28:01Z
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@StevenDouglas @PonySoldier Contemporary Chinese technofascism seems to be their major export, as a result of the West's "engagement."
(DIR) Post #AFyDfeBWcbEpgkNluC by StevenDouglas@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:40:08Z
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@darulharb @PonySoldier We're reaping what we sowed. Go around trying to fix other people, other governments, other anything unsolicited - and you're inviting them TO FIX YOU.Good and hard.
(DIR) Post #AFyDic0DBzWBmwVKoi by StevenDouglas@social.quodverum.com
2022-01-30T15:40:41Z
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@darulharb @PonySoldier We're reaping what was sowed on our behalfs. Go around trying to fix other people, other governments, other anything unsolicited - and you're inviting them TO FIX YOU.Good and hard.