What happened to American Conservatism?

@averagejoe1 said
But I have a different take of my own, if I may. There is no 'other' father of modern economics, so your post fails.

And you're as wrong as you've ever been.

@sh76 said
===What happened to American Conservatism?===

We're in exile.

We'll be back when wokism runs out of steam and stops pushing the center-right into the arms of the reactionaries.

It's not really pushing when they're running there.

@quackquack said
Economic conservative's insight is that if you don't constantly have a government which interferes with the status quo and takes from some groups and gives to others, that people will be able to take care of themselves, keep the fruits of their labors and innovate.
America works best with less government interference. It was private industry that developed vaccines and c ...[text shortened]... e care of themselves when there isn't a bully government which constantly undoes everyones bargains.

This has been parroted for the last 40 years, but we have yet to see a practical working application of this nonsense.