![]() ![]() To the contrary, this has been a 30-year train wreck, a slow-motion disaster that mangled conservatism into the moral monstrosity it is today. We didn’t reach the current state of things overnight, after all. ![]() There was a time they might have even stopped it had enough of them simply spoken out. There was a moment when every traditionally conservative voter, pundit and politician could have stood up against what conservatism has become, the rot it has inflicted. ![]() The readers are correct, as far as it goes. Rather, they are extremists who have essentially hijacked the word and bent it to their own uses. While “conservative” is, in fact, the descriptor self-chosen by Trump and his acolytes, these readers argue that those folks are anything but adherents to the ideas of small government, muscular foreign policy and minimum regulation by which conservatism has traditionally been defined. That’s my blanket response to a persistent trickle of emails from readers who keep asking me to, in effect, stop using the word “conservative” when I mean “crazy.” “Or “fascist.” Or “mean.” Which is to say that these people, most of whom would consider themselves conservative, want me to stop using that word to describe the likes of Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ginni Thomas and other luminaries of the political right. ![]() Lauren Boebert, left, and Marjorie Taylor Greene hoot and holler during President Biden’s State of the Union address in March. ![]()
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