Conservatives will be tested severely and constantly in the coming years. It’s up to us to hold Republicans to account when they deviate into the comfortable “but he’s a Republican, so it’s okay” mindset. During the Bush Administration, that led us to the ideological and electoral disasters of 2006 and 2008: vast expansions for federal power, new entitlements, wild spending, and bank bailouts which led to disheartened and defeated Republicans in the House and the Senate.
It’s up to a new conservative movement to provide stronger voices for the better values that have defined this nation’s long journey and to offer a smarter, more human, and more modern path than the grubby, racially-inflected nationalism that too many of Trump’s supporters have embraced. Center-right conservatism is on fire with ideas; it’s incumbent on a new conservative movement to fight for them.
Good and bad leaders all pass, with either great consequence or great danger to the fabric of the Republic. Trump is not the end of America, just as Obama wasn’t. Those of us who revere the Constitution are obliged to respect the decision of the electorate, and we will pray President Trump will be granted more wisdom and probity than Citizen Trump has ever displayed.
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