ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Cliff Notes version of this Federalist article: https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/26/conservatisms-three-legged-stool-has-no-legs-left/

These are the 3 elements of Conservatism 1) Fiscal restraint, 2) “limited government”, and 3)“free markets”. The Republican coalition for decades was built on the “three-legged stool” of these principals.

How have Republicans followed through on these principals?

"Consider the three legs of the stool. On fiscal conservatism, we’re swimming in an ocean of debt that grows no matter which party controls Congress, while inflation is killing middle- and working-class families. On traditional values, we legalized gay marriage and then quickly moved on to normalizing transgenderism and acquiescing to so-called “gender-affirming care,” even for minors. On peace-through-strength foreign policy, we lost the War on Terror and are now funding multiple wars all over the world as part of a crumbling global imperium. The stool has no legs left.

As for limited government, we saw how much the GOP cared about the former during Covid, and even recently when it refused to do anything about our intelligence agencies routinely spying on us and censoring disfavored speech online. And free markets, although fine in theory, have in practice served as a permission slip for massive corporations to hollow out America’s industrial base and ship jobs overseas, enriching the upper and managerial classes while everyone else struggles."

Republicans "failed to conserve anything, it has also turned out to be a shell game. Republicans would raise money on promises to repeal Obamacare or restrict abortion or secure the border, but never follow through once in power. They would rail against fiscal profligacy but always end up passing massive budgets with no real reforms or cuts. Thank you Mike JohnsonA strong foreign policy now looks more like a corporate welfare program for Pentagon contractors in a world that’s anything but peaceful." Thank you again, Mike Johnson

SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

"the plain reality that we are in a life-or-death struggle against the left, and the left is playing by a different set of rules. If the right agrees as a matter of principle that it will not wield government power to achieve its preferred outcomes, but the left vows to use the government whenever and however it can, then the left is going to win every time. And that is exactly what has happened. Think weaponized lawfare, FBI and intelligence agencies spying, deep state bureaucracy and policies. ...

...we have to stop thinking of ourselves as conservatives and start thinking of ourselves, and our movement, as restorationist and counterrevolutionary. In a very real sense, we have to re-found our country, and to do that we will have to seize power from the left — and use it."

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

The federalist.
They believe you shouldn’t have Any of their money in your pocket. !!!
Tell me , how would that work. ?

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Really M? 1) Fiscal restraint, 2) “limited government”, and 3)“free markets” - Please explain to me how those three elements would not solve most of our country's problems.