re: "Conservatism" has to be more than just a defensive posture

While I would love for the intellectual equivalent of Thomas Sowell to suddenly be electable to the Presidency, the reality is that the first order of business is to kill the goose laying liberal golden eggs.

IDENTITY POLITICS.

Until this dead, buried and shamed beyond all recognition, there is no route back from the insanity liberals have built not just in the US, but throughout the west.