re: What is your elevator pitch to be conservative

First of all, the word “conservative” to too many people means unchecked “free market” capitalism and little besides.

Contrasted with the modern left, I simply stick to American ideals. Freedom of thought and speech beyond just lip service, A nation of moral laws based on a higher order, suspicion of government and power, state’s rights supersede federal control, an empowered citizenry with the right to protest and bear arms, an electoral system protected against mass capital from foreign agents or parties with no connection to this country. Basically the founding fathers drew up the plan I largely hold to...if we’ve traded that for what we’re now embracing, we deserve what history has repeatedly shown is coming to us.