Anonymous #1 1w

Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive necessarily.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Also, conservative is really just a word used to describe the right wing of our country. What is considered normal for the right wing can change, and it has lmao.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

conservatism has an actual tradition, men like Burke, or Goldwater, or Buckley. American conservatives are not traditionally populist. Goldwater himself warned of the rise of populism and the religious right taking over the GOP. Mr. Trump does not abide by any conservative tradition. He acts on his whims and off of stoking the mob, those are populist sentiments.

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Anonymous #1 1w

This is just dork cope.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

There is an actual conservative tradition, we have caucuses and policy debates. But I don’t blame you for not knowing much about it. The conservative impulse is to be conservative. To not be showey in a desire for mass approval. That is the populist impulse. Populism is antithetical to conservative thought. There is no populist treatise other than the will of the crowd, something that is opposite to the nature of our seperation of powers and our Constitution.

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Anonymous #1 1w

you’re speaking about the tradition of the Republican Party.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

Conservatives are a wing of the party. There are populists in both branches though and they are a scourge to both. At least liberalism in the sense of Mill for example has a treatise by which to go off of. In that world we can debate solid ideas and policies. Populism destroys that and demands purity to the whims of the moment.

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