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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I think this describes where I lose some of your argument. "Conservatives" have been replaced with populists. We have a few populist parties running right now. Bernie, Warren, and Trump are all attracting different varieties of populists. I don't think conservatives are in a state of reaction right now. They might have been in the past. Now I think they're in a state of near extinction.
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All the people who you are calling "populists" call themselves "conservatives." Not only are they not extinct, they hold a significant share, if not a majority, of the Supreme Court, the Executive Branch's political jobs, and the Senate.
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When conservatives gained power in the past they struggled because they realized that they weren't really conservatives. They wanted to spend money just like liberals, only in different ways. They realized they weren't really conservative at all.
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And yet they continue to see themselves as "conservatives," so they are. Saying they're not is a nice little rhetorical trick, but otherwise just gets in the way of conversation.
