Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The circus finale

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We begin today with Ben Jacobs of Vox evaluating Number 45’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and finding Trump to be at war with the Republican Party of the past.

Even if Trump hadn’t tipped his hand when he declared early in his remarks to a mostly full ballroom of diehards in MAGA hats that “we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush,” the rest of his speech represented a fundamental repudiation that era of the Republican Party. But more than that, it represented a reversion toward a pre-World War II GOP, with doses of both populism and paleo conservatism.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/5/2156282/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-circus-finale

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1. OK, I had to look up Paleoconservatism ........

There are many sites via google including some academic ones, but this is it in a nutshell..........
I think of DeSantis right now with this quote: " a return to traditional conservative ideals relating to gender, culture, and society."
The SC sure hit it with the abortion issue.!!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism





................Ideology

Paleoconservatives support restrictions on immigration, decentralization, trade tariffs and protectionism, economic nationalism, isolationism, and a return to traditional conservative ideals relating to gender, culture, and society.[19]

Paleoconservatism differs from neoconservatism in opposing free trade and promoting republicanism. Paleoconservatives see neoconservatives as imperialists and themselves as defenders of the republic.[20][21]

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2. Sometimes I'm afraid I learn too much on DU.

I had no idea about either Paleo conservatism nor it's conflict with neoconservatives. Can't decide if I wanted to know that or not, but I think a thank you is in order for education. I just want people to live their lives as well as possible with as little heartache and sadness as possible. I'm so uncomplicated.