...Conventional wisdom...will tell you that Trump is the logical conclusion of 21st century conservatism.
This line of thinking actually has two strains, both of which absolve the left of any responsibility for the advent of Trump.
The first strain posits that Republicans are awful people, and Trump merely embodies this quality in its purest form...
...According to the other strain, the Republican establishment has so disappointed the conservative base that it created an opening for Trump to fill...
...I have a different explanation for ascendant Trumpism. It isn't the result of conservatism but of liberalism. Thanks to unrelenting demands by the left for increasingly preposterous levels of political correctness over the past decade, people are simply fed up. Trump survives--nay, thrives!--because he is seen as the antidote, bravely and unimpeachably standing athwart political correctness..."
eye'm thynkin': Well, I guess if I were a die-hard conservative like S.E. Cupp, who authored the above article, I'd be looking for someone else to blame for Trump too.
By the way, I hear the next edition of Merriam-Webster will feature Ms. Cupp's photo twice--right next to the words "audacity" and "delusional."
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