Would Ronald Reagan admonish today’s so-called “conservatives” with “There you go again”?
I supported and voted for John Anderson in 1980 because I saw him as a real Republican who was concerned with “res publica” (public things). Rather than have a laundry list of “ills of what was wrong” he concerned himself with balancing issues.
Unfortunately the Republican Party has devolved into a blame machine in which Democrats can do no right.
If the Republicans were real conservatives, wouldn’t they be all in favor of considering many ideas rather than be in lockstep on one set of ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they read the Constitution very carefully instead of corrupting it to fit their own ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they heed Washington’s advice in his farewell address to avoid factions?
Once upon a time the Senate was called the “greatest deliberative body in the world. Now it has a Majority of one who obstructs any legislation that he doesn’t like.
