07-27-2016, 03:20 PM
William F. Buckley must have thought that Donald Trump could have gone either way, choosing his partisan identity and his agenda entirely for convenience. He would have been as objectionable as a Democrat as a Republican.
Genuine conservatives usually have no room for demagogues. They prefer to keep mass expectations low, and demagogues violate that preference. Liberals distrust opportunism.
Genuine conservatives usually have no room for demagogues. They prefer to keep mass expectations low, and demagogues violate that preference. Liberals distrust opportunism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.