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Title: Purists Kill Whatever They Believe In
Source: National Review
URL Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic ... rists-kill-conservative-dreams
Published: Mar 28, 2017
Author: Dennis Prager
Post Date: 2017-03-28 19:15:04 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 263
Comments: 2

The GOP now looks ridiculous, and it may have passed up the opportunity of a lifetime to defeat the Left.

According to the New York Times, ten moderates, 15 conservatives, and eight other Republicans would have voted against the Republican repeal-and-replace Obamacare Bill. So, then, 15 or so conservatives made it impossible to pass the bill favored by nearly every other Republican and by President Donald Trump. If that is the case, what we have here is another conservative example of purism and principle damaging another major opportunity to do good.

The first purist conservative example were the Never Trumpers, who believed it was better for Hillary Clinton to be elected president and for the Left to have four more years of presidential power than for Donald Trump to win.

There were valid reasons to wonder whether Donald Trump was a conservative, and valid reasons to oppose him in the primaries. There were no valid reasons to oppose him in the general election. I said all these things then and have thus far been validated beyond my wildest dreams.

In terms of policy, Donald Trump is a conservative dream. From appointing a conservative to the Supreme Court, to approving the Keystone XL pipeline, to weakening the fanatical, hysterical, and tyrannical EPA, to appointing an ambassador to the United Nations who has moral contempt for that immoral institution, to backing Israel, to seeking to reduce economy-choking regulations on business — indeed essentially everything conservatives would wish for in a president — Donald Trump is almost too good to be true.

But he’s still not good enough for those conservatives who remain Never Trumpers, or good enough for the House members of the Freedom Caucus, at least with regard to the repeal-and-replace Obamacare Bill that President Trump worked so hard to have passed.

It is quite possible that I and most other conservatives who supported the repeal bill agree with just about every criticism of the bill that House conservatives made.

But, just as in the general election the question wasn’t whether candidate Trump was our ideal, the question now wasn’t whether the bill was our ideal. The question during the election was: What will happen if the Democrats and the Left win the presidency again? And the question now was and remains: What will happen if the Republicans don’t pass a bill favored by all but 25 to 30 Republican representatives and, most important, by President Trump?

But purists don’t ask such questions. They live in a somewhat different world than the rest of us who actually agree with them on everything. Because we don’t ask what is ideologically pure and true to our principles.

We ask: What is closest to our ideology and to our principles?

Or, to put it another way, we have one larger principle than even the conservative ones that we share with the purists: defeating the Left, because that is the Number One priority of those who cherish Western civilization and regard America as the Last Best Hope for humanity.

The conservative Never Trumpers and the conservatives who voted for Trump had everything in common except for that overriding principle. Conservatives who voted for Trump believe that defeating the Left is the overriding moral good of our time. We are certain that the Left (not the traditional liberal) is destroying Western civilization, including, obviously, the United States. The external enemy of Western civilization are the Islamists (the tens or perhaps hundreds of million of Muslims who wish to see the world governed by Sharia), and the internal enemy of the West is the Left. What the Left has done to the universities and to Western culture at the universities is a perfect example.

Passing even a tepid first bill to begin the process of dismantling the crushing burden of Obamacare would have been an important first step in weakening the Left — not only by beginning to repeal Obamacare but also by strengthening the Trump presidency and the president’s ability to go forward with tax reform and other parts of his conservative agenda. The president is now damaged, and the Republican party looks ludicrous. What other word can one use to describe the party that passed 60 resolutions in seven years to repeal Obamacare and then failed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare — after voters delivered the House, the Senate, and the presidency to the GOP?

Make no mistake, ye of pure heart, this may well be the last time in your lifetimes that Republicans control both houses of Congress and have a conservative president. And understand that time is not on our side; there are congressional elections in a year and nine months.

Providence or luck made it possible to have a conservative president. Act accordingly.

And perhaps consider inscribing on the walls of your House and Senate offices a motto as relevant as “In God We Trust”: “The Best Is the Enemy of the Better.”

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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)

According to the New York Times, ten moderates, 15 conservatives, and eight other Republicans would have voted against the Republican repeal-and-replace Obamacare Bill. So, then, 15 or so conservatives made it impossible to pass the bill favored by nearly every other Republican and by President Donald Trump.

So 18 moderates opposed it and only 15 conservatives opposed.

But only the conservatives are to blame for it not passing.

This is an exceptionally lame-ass article even for Prager, an steadily obnoxious fool and tool. The clear bias here is on open display. Prager's motto: "Conservatives are bad and ignorant and unappeasable."

We've heard this same rot from him on many other occasions.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-03-28   19:37:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Gatlin (#0)

If that is the case, what we have here is another conservative example of purism and principle damaging another major opportunity to do good.

Conservatism has no ability to debate against socialism. They are stymied by advocation of love-in principles that are destructive in the long run.

rlk  posted on  2017-03-28   20:25:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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