1. There's an interesting intramural debate on right between @JRubinBlogger, @charlescwcooke, @davidfrum on how anti-Trump conservatives should be.
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4. But there's long been a lively conservatism in American that is free-floating & non-partisan: Kennan, John Lukacs, Hugh Kenner & the like.
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5. Maybe the upshot of Trump era is a conservatism severed from GOP, more about ideas than electoral politics. I pursue that thought here:https://newrepublic.com/article/146377/divorce-conservatism-republican-party …
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Every GOP presidential candidate since 1932 has been the more conservative option
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Right. Conservatives were pushing to make the GOP the party of conservatism for quite some time before that, especially with the nomination of Barry Goldwater as the Party's presidential candidate in 1964. But both Parties had conservative and liberal wings through the 1960s.
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