There is no excuse for conservatives to turn a blind eye to the threat Donald Trump poses to values which they have always considered sacrosanct.
After Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, the attempt by Czechoslovakian prime minister Alexander Dubcek to introduce a more “liberal” type of communism, the socialist world was deeply split.
In recent years, we have seen a strikingly similar phenomenon emerge among elements of the Right. Its most obvious current manifestation appears in attitudes to Donald Trump.Trump has long had a following among elements of the Right in Australia, some of whose high-profile identities, such asIn years gone by, CPAC was a gathering of orthodox conservatives; it has now become a jamboree of MAGA Republicans.
The ghost of George Orwell haunts the country’s college campuses, as prestigious American universities have degenerated from havens for free thinking to licensors of orthodoxy. Nor is a person who is openly defiant of both the criminal and civil law, and seeks, in a similarly mendacious way, to discredit the US justice system as a political conspiracy against him. Nor is someone who openly countenances a “revenge presidency”, with all the abuse of executive power that threatens, a person conservatives should find acceptable.
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