Millions of Americans who call themselves conservatives are angry. And I can’t blame them.
They look around and see their country being taken over by Marxist-inspired barbarians. They see personal freedoms they’ve taken for granted eroded. And they see smug politicians and activists glibly call them racist and sexist and various other ugly labels.
But in their eagerness to blame someone for this, self-described conservatives are looking in the wrong places for the cause of these developments. If they really want to know why things are falling apart, they need to collectively look into a mirror.
The conservatives of my youth would have been shocked at what today’s so-called conservatives have become. The positions and rhetoric of today’s Republican Party are radically different from the free-market conservatism of Ronald Reagan.
The people who call themselves conservatives today are really populists, but they don’t understand that. They’ve handed the control of their party to liars and charlatans. They have no principles other than “owning the libs” on social media. And they still can’t admit to themselves that Donald Trump is a narcissistic con man who’s bamboozled them.
Worst of all, they’ve abandoned the principles of individual liberty.

Ten years later, it hurts to know she lost faith in me and gave up
Best years of our lives? For me, teen years were start of feeling like alien
Sometimes we should ignore idiots who yell about non-existent racism
Love’s closest counterfeit sounds like love but acts like selfish need
FRIDAY FUNNIES
If you ask wrong questions about politics, you’ll get wrong answers
Governments can recognize rights, but no government creates rights
Silence and darkness allow us to listen to what world drowns out
We won’t be free until politicians lose power to control the Internet