My new piece in the American Conservative:
The relationship between the Bush administration and the conservative movement was hardly unexpected. Conservatives were disappointed when George W. Bush was nominated, since he is not a card-carrier. But when The Democrat arrived on the scene, pushing the usual panoply of bad ideas, conservatives changed their tune and backed the GOP. They always do. Indeed, they assembled in full force to elect Bush.
Of course, he moved left after the election. Many months went by before Bush did what every Republican president does: invite “movement leaders” to the White House for a special briefing. Craven doesn’t quite describe it. Conservatives will sell their firstborn to get a meeting at the White House. The leaders emerged to tell their followers and the press that they had inside information that the Bush administration was on the right track, so there was nothing to worry about. We can easily imagine Bush’s staff guffawing at these fools after they left the room.
After their meeting, the new conservative love for the GOP president lasted for a couple of years, and then it was time for another election and the whole charade started over again. Conservatives issued a warning that the president had better shape up or he wouldn’t earn their support. So they got another meeting and a photo op and again promised fealty to the Republican Leviathan. In the end, of course, they have nowhere else to turn. No matter how dreadful the president is, conservatives fear the alternative more. So they end up as willing propagandists for the regime.
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Hits the nail on the head!
The article exactly summarizes the very reasons I left the bankrupt Republican party.
I am glad to have found a new school of thought on this very site.
Bravo! Me too. And many others, I suspect.
Great article. BTW, I’ve never seen the American Conservative in any bookstore. Is it a magazine marketed exclusively to intellectuals?
I mean I wouldn’t want to offend the powers that be by reading it as one of the prols.
It’s very hard to fight a century of indoctrination through the state schools. The paths of both parties lead to the same location. They’re simply fighting about who gets to sit in the big chair in the middle.
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