You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Libertarianism Might Be Irrelevant

in #politics7 years ago

The libertarian movement grew in size and influence and, well, there seemed to be less and less in common with conservatives who were fixated on foreign policy adventurism abroad and culture-war issues at homeIand the post-Cold War world, conservatives started turning against free trade and immigration as well, turning to instead toward “National Greatness” as articulated in the pages of The Weekly Standard and nativism as pronounced without pause during the 1990s and 2000s at National Review

Sort:  

The conservative movement has always been problematic for the GOP. The problem is that the underlying ideology of the conservatism was formulated by the Conservative Party of Great Britain. The Conservative Party of Great Britain was actually designed to conserve the social structure of the monarchy.

https://steemit.com/conservatism/@yintercept/who-was-the-first-conservative

What I have seen happen throughout my lifetime is that the Conservative Party consistently undermines the conversation about liberty.