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Originally Posted by Pete F.

The conservatism of DeSantis and Abbott is perfectly recognizable. It’s not the American conservatism of Reagan to Romney (which may well prove an anomaly in the history of conservatism), it’s the European conservatism of the 1920s and early 1930s.

The quality or character of "conservatism" in different decades of American history changed with the social and political challenge that it faced in each era. The political persuasions of DeSantis and Abbot far more resemble Reagan and Romney's "conservatism" than that of Biden and the Dems.

My favorite 20th century "conservative" President was Coolidge. Reagan was close at number 2. They faced different qualities of Progressive leftism. Coolidge fought a Wilsonian Progressivism still somewhat linked to the Constitution and to traditional social and religious values. Reagan's nemesis was the more entrenched Progressivism of the "living, breathing" Constitution created by the FDR administration with its deep infiltration by the Communist Party, and a Democrat Party that had progressed much farther to the left of Wilsons and still had various roots in its FDR era ties to communism.

The "conservatives" of today are up against a thoroughly anti-constitutional, unlimited power Progressive from of government in the Democrat Party which still has ties with the Communist Party, and has created a regulatory system that favors the rise and dominance of both government and corporate centralization--and the symbiosis of both behemoths into a fascistic government, corporate, media, military complex that has a stranglehold on the governance of this country.

The struggle of "conservatism" today is preserving what is left of constitutional limitations on central power, and recovering, bit by bit, the constitutional power of state and local governments and the regrowth of individual unalienable rights that have withered through the onslaught of federally, unconstitutional, rights of centralized (collective) groups.

The comparison is more correctly between eras of "conservatism" in this country than between current American "conservatism" to various eras of European "conservatism" which is far more centralized on a national level than American "conservatism." DeSantis and Abbot "conservatism," whatever that may be, can only be expressed at state levels and may not reflect or even have a connection to national "conservatism" in terms of federal policy. The rise of a Hitler or Mussolini would be very difficult here. Nor even in Texas or Florida. I see no real connection between Abbot and DeSantis to Hitler.

Actually, the only way a totalitarian government can be implanted here is by scrapping the Constitution, or by "interpreting" it out of original existence into some authoritarian governing document, or just disregarding it. Any of those is precisely a goal of the Progressive agenda.


The $4.2 billion that Greg Abbott burned at the border could have fixed the Texas power grid.

30 trillion++ debt that the federal government has burned by overspending could have "fixed" a whole lot more than the Texas power grid.

The federal government consistently spends more than it takes in (and it takes in more than it constitutionally should). Texas is among the most fiscally responsible states. According to Invester's Business Daily--"Alaska leads all states in money socked away. Other states that took in considerably more than they spent included North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, and Texas."