http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?_r=0
Frank Bruni
marvels at polls indicating that Donald Trump, with his multiple
marriages and casinos, is the preferred candidate among Republican
evangelicals. Others are shocked to see a crude mercantilist make so
much headway in the alleged party of free markets. What happened to
conservative principles?
Actually, nothing —
because those alleged principles were never real. Conservative
religiosity, conservative faith in markets, were never about living a
godly life or letting the invisible hand promote entrepreneurship.
Instead, it was all as Corey Robin describes it: Conservatism is
a reactionary movement, a defense of power and privilege against democratic challenges from below, particularly in the private spheres of the family and the workplace.
It’s really about
who’s boss, and making sure that the man in charge stays boss. Trump is
admired for putting women and workers in their place, and it doesn’t
matter if he covets his neighbor’s wife or demands trade wars.
The point is that Trump isn’t a diversion, he’s a revelation, bringing the real motivations of the movement out into the open
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