We talk a lot about the Right and the Left and who is on the Right and who is on the Left.\u00a0 For instance, a large part of the 2016 fireworks was over people who said Donald Trump was not a Republican.\u00a0 And a large contingent of these people were neoconservatives and libertarians.\u00a0 To them Trump was just an opportunist who had seized on nativist talking points to appeal to the worst instincts of the working-class White Americans and would lead the Republicans to disaster in the general election because his policy priorities would be rejected by the wider American electorate.\u00a0 As it turned out they were dead wrong.\u00a0 \u201cMaking America Great Again,\u201d and putting America first resonated with the majority of voters.<\/p>\n
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 2016 and the neocons have become the NeverTrumpers and have self-ejected from the Republican party and the Right in general.\u00a0 They are now indistinguishable from Woke Leftists except in their enhanced emphasis on all things anti-Trump.<\/p>\n
And this is the crux of the point of this post.\u00a0 The Neocons were never conservatives.\u00a0 And it should have been obvious from the beginning that if you are not socially conservative then you are not of the Right.\u00a0 And that goes for others \u201con the Right.\u201d\u00a0 Being in favor of market capitalism makes you a capitalist.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t make you a conservative.\u00a0 You can be an enthusiastic capitalist and compete ferociously in the free market and still be in favor of deconstructing the United States of America, the Family and Western Civilization all at the same time.\u00a0 So, the former dichotomy of Right and Left being capitalists versus communists doesn\u2019t really apply to today.\u00a0 The Woke Left is spearheaded by Silicon Valley billionaires who print money by the metric ton but want to turn America into a digital gulag.\u00a0 So, defining the Right isn\u2019t what we thought it was back in Reagan\u2019s day and never was.\u00a0 Somehow Donald Trump knew that the Right wasn\u2019t the Right and he was able to seize the high ground and overturn the establishment Republican\u2019s narrative.\u00a0 He became the Right.\u00a0 But Donald Trump will not always be around and we need a definition of what the Right is or represents so that we can measure other leaders and other policies to see if they align with our interests.<\/p>\n
So, what is the Right, what is conservatism?\u00a0 As far as I can tell, conservatism is the Right and what it means is conserving the things in life that have value, things that give life meaning.\u00a0 And so, it comes down to individual judgement.\u00a0 But I think if the \u201cnormal\u201d opinion on what gives life meaning is assumed then what we are talking about are the rock-bottom requirements to making life human.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think you can get any more fundamental than the preservation of the family.\u00a0 A man and a woman raising kids is just about as basic as it gets.\u00a0 All that needs to be added is the framework for raising them which we call religion.\u00a0 So, God and Family.\u00a0 And because this is America, we add in the Constitution of the United States to allow all the families to interact without having to kill each other.\u00a0 In fact it\u2019s probably one of the finer blueprints for running a country.\u00a0 God, Family and Country.\u00a0 That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
For the most part what we have to do is see where a particular policy or leader aligns with or hampers these things and we\u2019ll know whether it\u2019s of the Right or not.\u00a0 For instance, the Supreme Court has declared gay marriage a Constitutional right.\u00a0 This makes it very difficult for a politician to do anything about eliminating it.\u00a0 But if a politician says he\u2019s a conservative and he also espouses gay marriage or transgender rights then you know that he\u2019s a Leftist.<\/p>\n
There, that\u2019s easy.\u00a0 Look at what politicians say they agree with and you\u2019ll know what side they are on.\u00a0 If a politician says he\u2019s anti-communist but his idea of capitalism means sending all the jobs overseas and importing low wage laborers into this country then guess what?\u00a0 He\u2019s a Leftist.\u00a0 He may claim he just believes in free markets and capitalism but what he really believes in is globalism and therefore he doesn\u2019t believe in the United States of America.\u00a0 If a politician says he believes in God but says that you aren\u2019t allowed to object to sexual deviancy being taught to your children then guess what?\u00a0 He\u2019s a Leftist.<\/p>\n
Now how easy is that?\u00a0 Try it on any politician who waxes poetic about conservatism but never seems to get any results.\u00a0 Find out what he\u2019s actually said about specific policy points like illegal immigration or bringing jobs back to this country or tariffs or \u201cfree trade\u201d or transgender rights or freedom of religion.\u00a0 It should be pretty easy to sort the wolves from the sheep dogs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll try to put together some further examples to try to refine my thoughts on the definition of the Right and the various groups like libertarians and social conservatives and socialists but I hope this makes clear what I think conservative means.\u00a0 It means pro-family, pro-religion, pro-America.\u00a0 In other words pro-normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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