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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20. The Goldwater takeover of GOP in 1964 cemented longlasting alliance, given social form by Southern strategy. But that's coming apart.
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21. What Trump has demonstrated is that many right-wing Republican's don't give a fig about conservative movement orthodoxy.
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22. Trump proves plurality of GOP voters want an American Peron & not a devotee of Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss, Michael Oakeshott, etc.
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23. Even if Trump loses in the general, the GOP will fall under his sway. They will nominate a slicker, streamlined Trump in 2020.
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