The excellent new documentary on Barry Goldwater - the founder of modern conservatism - clearly shows how today's GOP bears little relationship with conservatism. Wealthy and powerful interests are engaged in a radical duplicitous agenda which media conservatives do not have the courage to confront ( David Brooks, Jeff Jacoby, Tucker Carlson, and George Will) and which appeals to a segment of the population as some kind of balm for their perceived political alienation.
As David Stockman wrote twenty years ago about the Reagan team, big government Republicanism does not cut spending, does not level the playing field, it just trades the widespread support mechanisms engineered by democrats ( e.g. Great Society) for targeted privilege.
Today's so called republicans and so called conservatives are mostly ill informed about this reality as they feast on carefully created "values" issues, denounce inconsequential celebrity figures, and ponder economic theories ( free market etc) that have no basis in reality.
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