Skip to main content

Trumpism & the eclipse of Constitutional conservatism

Today, the shuttering of the Constitutional limited-government conservative movement was completed. It only remains to be seen if this is a passing fad or a lasting change.

The Republican party has officially switched from crony-capitalist, neo-con war mongering to European far-right style agrarian, isolationist, nativist, protectionist populism, à la Trump.

The Trump phenomenon has at least one positive outcome. All the unprincipled impostors and charlatans on the right have revealed themselves. This is a good thing. This is cathartic.

THE BLACKLIST

Politicians who have endorsed Trump include :

Chris Christie
Sarah Palin
Ben Carson
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal
Jeff Sessions
Rick Scott
Jan Brewer
Rick Perry

Aside from these, here are the other prominent Trump apologists, sympathizers and endorsers in the media & politics :

Michael Savage
Ann Coulter
Sean Hannity
Bill O’Reilly
Laura Ingraham
Fox News
The Drudge Report
Breitbart
Rush Limbaugh
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Robert Jeffress
Gateway Pundit
Herman Cain
Phyllis Schlafly
Newt Gingrich
Bill Krystal.

From one perspective, they may be considered traitors -- folks for whom the will to power has quite literally trumped principle. From another perspective, they have always been true to form and a different body of principles and conservatives have been quick to turn a blind eye in the effort to gain political advantages.

THE FAITHFUL

Through it all three media personalities have faithfully stood for the Constitutional conservative principles of liberty & justice :

Mark Levin
Glenn Beck
Matt Walsh

Aside from them, here is the list of the original #NeverTrump conservatives, who have stayed the course.

Ben Sasse
David Boaz
Erick Erickson
David McIntosh
Michael Medved
Edwin Meese III
Russell Moore
Thomas Sowell
Cal Thomas
Dana Loesch
Ben Shapiro

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

the World Cup draw -- an alternative proposal

The FIFA World Cup seeding and draw system has consistently produced groups of death and groups comprised mainly of teams that fail to invoke passion or imagination from fans around the world, except perhaps for such teams' own fans. The latest edition is no exception -- and may even be the worst ever on this measure. An outline of the draw system can be seen here . We have one group which contains Switzerland, Ecuador and Honduras and another consisting of Russia, Algeria and South Korea!! And, on top of this, we have at least three, if not four or more, groups of death. Depending on one's perspective, esp. given the recent rise of African powerhouses, all of the rest of the groups may even be considered Groups of Death!! This is a disservice to football fans around the world, not to mention the skilled and enterprising teams that worked hard to get here. To address this, I propose a simplified draw system : Randomize Pot 1 and assign to Groups Assign remaining Pots t...
4 comments
Read more

Migrating from MS SQL Server to MongoDB

The following contains notes from various attempts at migrating 2.5GB of MS SQL Server data to MongoDB, on an 8 GB, quad-core, 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise machine. [TERMINATED]  http://mssql2mongo.codeplex.com/ : Simple to use. Exponential slowdown observed in migration. For a total of the 50 million records spanning two tables, the following migration times were observed: 1 second for the first 100,000 records,  30 minutes for 1,000,000, 20 hours for 16 million (after which I terminated the process). [DID NOT WORK] http://rubydoc.info/gems/mongify/ : A ruby-based approach. Use Ruby 1.9.3 (tiny_tds dependency causes problems with Ruby 2.0). Install DevKit before installing the mongify gem. Also, use ' sqlserver ' as the adapter in the .config file. Then, before running ' mongify check <config-file> ', install the gems  activerecord-sqlserver-adapter  and tiny_tds . At this stage, it fails. ' mongify translation <config-file> ' fails as well. ...
1 comment
Read more

Excerpts (with some annotations) from "Competition Is For Losers" by Peter Thiel

Source :  http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536 The above article by Peter Thiel is the best business + economics education I have ever received or can ever conceive of receiving. Something about "anti-trust" always rubbed me the wrong way -- now I know what!! In the following, I organize excerpts from his article into named sections and summarize, emphasize and/or annotate (minimally) along the way. ________________________ CAPTURING VS. CREATING VALUE Creating value isn't enough—you also need to capture some of the value you create . Airlines create value but run razor-thin margins and are unable to capture the value they create vs. Google creates far less value but is able to capture most of it. MONOPOLY VS. PERFECT COMPETITION Competition is idealized and monopoly is abhorred -- in academia and among the general public.  "Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from...
Post a Comment
Read more