Let me stop you right there, @Evan_McMullin. One of the reasons why I voted for you, and did so specifically as a protest vote, is becausehttps://twitter.com/evan_mcmullin/status/943161444316704768 …
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You miss Frum’s point. Of course those of us who haven’t abandoned our principles want conservatism to mean what it always has to us. But the reality is there are now more supporters of Trumpism claiming conservatism than there are adherents of founding principles doing the same.
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Thank you for the response. Frum specifically criticizes Cooke for calling out Rubin's complete reversal on policy: she should be called
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out, because by doing so she is relabelling some conservative policies as Trump's ideas, ceding ground to him and allowing him to take
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We will go on telling people what we think conservatism is, but we may lose the battle for that word simply because there are more of them than there are of us. The most broadly understood meaning of the word will be driven by the definition that the majority ascribe to it.
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I would prefer that conservatism describe the defense of founding principles, but Trumpism is appropriating the word to itself. In the end, what matters more than anything else is our commitment to our principles even if we end up having to use new words to describe it.
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