When This Blows Over

“…People think that the arrival of Trump on the scene and the
success he's having has blown whatever alignment there was
between the so-called conservative movement and the
Republican Party, because what is happening here -- what is
being exposed, what's being demonstrated -- is that, yeah, there
are a lot of people who are conservative, but many will not call
themselves that, and they are not conservatives because of
conservative policy.
In other words, they're not wonks.
They don't understand all the ins and outs of classic
conservatism. They're just who they are. Therefore, it's not
conservatism that is the glue that has this group of people in
this coalition held together. It's quite a number of other things,
and right now the glue is an absolute opposition to the Democrat
Party, to the American left, to the worldwide left, and
everything they have done and want to continue doing.
If somebody comes along and convinces them that they're
serious about stopping this and reversing it, they don't care if it's
somebody from Mars!
It doesn't have to be a classical conservative promising this.
It can be anybody who makes them trust him, anybody with
credibility. So the fear is, when you get inside the Beltway,
that all of the conservative institutions -- in media and in think
tanks, you name it. All the various components are being
exposed as really unnecessary and irrelevant, and really haven't
done anything for people…
The Tea Party's a different thing, obviously.
So the Trump triumph, the Trump coalition is exposing the fact
that it isn't conservative orthodoxy, or conservatism, or any of
the hard work of the conservative elite in persuading people and
educating them and informing them that is causing people to be
conservative.