7. Distinction between Kristol & Douthat is this: Kristol is an apparatchik, a party hack. If the party picks Trump, he'll fall in line.
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8. I could be wrong, but I think
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9. Despite Andrew Sullivan's hyperventilation, Trump is not an extinction event for American Republic or even the Republican.
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10. Trump is, however, an extinction event for the American conservative movement as it has existed since 1950s.
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11. Trump will call himself a conservative but remake conservatism in his own image:https://twitter.com/MajorCBS/status/727291460337410049 …
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12. Trump's conservatism will be nationalist, unilateralist, protectionist, for tighter borders & relatively indifferent to social issues.
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13. Trump's style of conservatism will be very different than the coalition of neo-cons, religious right & corporate America we are used to.
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14. What's key is to realize that existing American conservatism is not the only way to be right-wing.
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15. Under existing system, America will always have a right-of-center party, but it doesn't have to accept existing American conservatism.
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16. It's important to realize that alliance between conservative movement & GOP is very recent. It started in our parent's lifetime.
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17. When American conservativism coalesced in 1940s/1950s, it didn't necessarily have to ally itself with GOP. That was a choice.
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18. Eisenhower's Republican party was not a conservative party but a moderate one. Most conservative intellectuals of time didn't like
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19. Some !950s conservative intellectuals wanted to remain outside party politics, others to create 3rd party. Some (Leo Strauss) were Dems.
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