David Frenchism

They also tend to be compromised by their need to make a living by their writings.

I find this rather rich considering the way NRO dumped Mark Steyn (who wrote the article which upset Mann.) Steyn has been fighting Mann on his own for something like seven years. It must have cost him hundreds of thousands, at the very least. Where was NRO?

Addition by subtraction.

French Davidianism in a nutshell: when people assail you with grotesquely false calumnies, it's "rational" to stop and think about whether they have a point.

And you guys wonder why you get called cucks.

I get called naive, ignorant, mean-spirited, a liar, nitwit, etc., all the time here for being passionate about calling out the failures of the previous generation of "get a long to go along" conservatives. In real life, I have had the same set of people "on my side" try and smear me and the candidates I have worked with in the past as literal Neo-Nazis in my local paper. Did I cry about it? No. I just brushed it off and kept fighting because at the end of the day this country is worth fighting for despite the fact we have an established class of traitors that would rather worry about getting invited to the next DC cocktail party than the America that their children will inherit.

For me, I do not ask for purity, I just ask for people to own up to the roles they played in the failure of conservativism's fight against globalized liberalism; and if they can't do that, at least fight back against it. French never did that until one of his own, Brett Kavanaugh, fell victim to the same smear machine that everyday 'deplorables' have faced (albeit Brett never got bikelocked or lost his job). Speaking of jobs, French is so out of touch with the rest of America he was writing as late as this summer about how it is important for conservatives to speak up at work to push back against progressivism; nevermind almost anyone who works in an office would tell you that is career suicide. Frenchism: out of style, out of date, and out on its own now.

The question for the ladies and gentlemen of the Barbers Hill schools is, or should be: What is the Barbers Hill high school for? Does it exist to produce educated men and women, or does it exist to produce docile rule-followers?

This is where you are much more polite than I. I would have gone at the man. Perhaps that is also why you certainly have more friends and acquaintances than I.

When I think of Conservatism I think of George Will's definition. It's about loyalty to the founding principles of the United States.
There is plenty of room to debate different ways we might support those principles with specific policy, but it all starts with Equality, Rights, and the Law.

In the past 30 years there has been a new concept crowding out the old one: "cultural conservative". This is the advocacy of a bunch of specific policies that aren't directly related to our founding principles.