Donald Trump Is Not a Conservative. He’s a Warning. By a lifelong Republican who still believes in conservative principles. It’s time to say out loud what many on the right whisper privately, and what is going to be increasingly made public: Donald Trump is not a conservative. Not in philosophy, not in temperament, not in governing style, and certainly not in respect for the institutions that conservatives have spent generations trying to preserve. Trumpism isn’t the future of conservatism—it’s its undoing. Conservatism Once Meant Something. Trump Burned It Down. Real conservatism champions limited government, personal responsibility, fiscal discipline, and reverence for the constitutional structure that restrains human ambition. It values rule of law over rule of man. It elevates character and humility, not chaos and ego. Trump embodies none of that. Instead, he has offered a politics of resentment, centralization of power, and a cult of personality so intense that many Republicans now treat the presidency as a throne rather than a constitutional office. This isn’t the legacy of Goldwater or Reagan. It’s the legacy of leaders conservatives once warned the nation about. A Man Who Worships Power Cannot Be a Conservative The first principle of conservatism is that power must be restrained, because human nature is flawed. Trump’s first principle is that power should be accumulated, because he believes he alone is virtuous. Conservatives fought for decades to limit presidential overreach. Trump smashed those boundaries with the zeal of someone who had never read a page of The Federalist Papers but is certain he understood them better than the authors. He threatened to use the DOJ against political enemies, demanded personal loyalty from public servants, attacked judges whose rulings he disliked, and treated independent institutions as his personal subsidiaries. That is not conservatism. That is authoritarian instinct—plain and simple. A Fiscal Conservative? Don’t Make Me Laugh. Trump exploded the deficit in times of economic expansion—something no conservative president had ever done. He signed every bloated spending bill that crossed his desk, raised tariffs (a hidden tax on consumers), and showed zero interest in entitlement reform or long-term financial stewardship. Conservatives used to talk about debt as a moral issue. Trump treated it like Monopoly money. Trade Protectionism Is Not Conservative Economics For decades, conservatives fought for free markets, open competition, and lower barriers to global commerce. Trump shattered that consensus with old-school economic nationalism dressed up as populist bravado. His tariffs punished American consumers and businesses more than foreign adversaries. Reagan said, “Protectionism is destructionism.” Trump called tariffs “beautiful.” One of them was a conservative. The other was Donald Trump. Character Still Counts—No Matter What Excuses His Followers Make Conservatism is a worldview rooted in virtue. Burke wrote about the necessity of ordered liberty supported by personal restraint. Buckley demanded decency and seriousness from the conservative movement. Reagan modeled optimism, humility, humor, and faith in America. Trump modeled none of these. He brought pettiness, cruelty, and narcissism into the center of the Republican identity. For too many, character no longer mattered as long as the leader punched the right enemies. That shift alone disqualifies Trump from being called a conservative—because it erases the moral foundation of the movement. He Has Contempt for the Constitution He Swore to Defend Conservatives revere the Constitution because it restrains the passions of the moment. Trump sees the Constitution as an inconvenient rulebook that keeps him from doing whatever he wants. He floated ideas like “terminating” parts of it after the 2020 election—a statement that should have permanently disqualified him from conservative life. He showed open disdain for federalism, attacked state leaders who disagreed with him, and repeatedly praised strongmen abroad whose power he envied. No one who speaks like that should ever again be called a conservative. Trump Isn’t a Philosophy—He’s an Erosion At its core, conservatism is about preserving the things that keep a nation strong: its institutions, its norms, its fiscal health, its civic virtue, and its constitutional order. Trump undermined every one of them. The real danger isn’t just Trump himself. It’s the precedent he sets: that a president can ignore norms, pressure institutions, centralize power, and shred the guardrails of democracy—all while claiming to be the guardian of “real America.” If conservatives allow that to stand, the movement won’t survive. The authoritarian left won’t destroy conservatism—Trumpism will. Conservatives Must Choose: Trump or Conservatism Those of us who still believe in conservative principles face a choice, and it’s not complicated: We can defend the Constitution, or we can defend Trump. We can stand for limited government, or we can stand for unlimited executive ego. We can preserve the conservative movement, or we can watch it mutate into a populist personality cult. But we cannot pretend that both visions are conservative. One is rooted in centuries of wisdom about human nature and the fragility of self-government. The other is rooted in the impulses of a single man. Trump is not a conservative. He never was. He is the loudest alarm bell the right has heard in generations—and if conservatives ignore it, we may never again recognize the movement we once believed in.

🚨A new report tracking 20 major right-wing websites found that traffic has cratered over the past year as Trump’s approval has collapsed. May marked the first month this year where every single site showed negative year-over-year growth. The biggest losers: The Federalist (-52%), Daily Wire (-47%), The Blaze (-46%), Free Beacon (-38%), and Daily Caller (-33%). “The trend in 2026 has definitely been downward, but it feels like the descent is accelerating,” said the analyst behind the report. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Trump is now underwater with white voters without a college degree — his most reliable base — sitting at -4 net approval as of April. His economy numbers hit the lowest of either term, with just 31% approving per CNN/SSRS. Even Fox & Friends hosts are sounding the alarm, with Ainsley Earhardt warning on-air that loyal Trump supporters are “tired of this.” They built their entire brand on one man. Now they’re all going down together.

Meanwhile, the genius J.D. is explaining that World War II ended through negotiations. Ah yes, those legendary Churchill–Hitler negotiations of 1945. How could we possibly have forgotten them? That’s what I love about Trump’s “young team” — you can never predict what ridiculous thing they’ll say next.

Trump goes full trailer-trash. Can he lower himself or the former prestige of the White House any further?

You’ve gotta be a certain level of stupid to get played by the Iranians when your U.S. military is 1000X stronger than theirs. Only Trump could be this strategically illiterate and this big of a buffoon. God I can’t wait till he is finally off the world stage and we can go back to adult leadership.

Trump‘s name getting ripped off the Kennedy Center is emblematic of the dying breaths of the MAGA cult movement as well as Trump‘s grifter presidency. Once the Democrats (aided by any remaining non-MAGA principled Republicans) take power come November, the investigations into the entire Trump mafia corrupt family will begin and it’s not gonna be pretty. They thought they could get away with it all but they won’t as it’s being carefully documented as we speak. They are going down and could even end up in jail. The corruption is so vast (in the $billions) that most people have no idea until we shine the light of day on it. Stay tuned. Trump and his sleazeball sons are going down big-time in November. FACT.

Mearsheimer is a traitor and a Kremlin propagandist. In any other age, he would be arrested and tried for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy Russia. Anyone listening to him has no better than a room-temperature-IQ and should really open a history book once in a while to educate themselves. Start with “Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar” to educate yourself on how evil Russia has always been and still remains. Russia must be defeated to make the world a much better place. Fact.

This is like the 10th loss for Trump this week alone.

Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo

JD Vance is about the stupidest, most strategically illiterate and poorly read politician ever to be elected to the vice presidency. No JD, negotiations didn’t end World War II, Hitler killed himself in a bunker, as we annihilated Germany and Japan, completely and utterly. You are a buffoon, a liar, and a MAGA spouting idiot who sold his soul to Trump and you, JD, will pay the price. The MAGA cult is dying quickly, and you will go down with it JD. You’re not a real conservative and you never were. You’re a fraud just like Trump.

Kennedy Center says it has fully removed Trump's name from its building. cnn.it/4xqbIYD

When Eisenhower’s armies came across the Nazi death camps as they overrode Nazi Germany, Eisenhower made many of the local German residents march past and sometimes into those camps to see the horrors that they had tried to ignore. They were complicit in evil by looking the other way. Maybe we should do the same thing with every Russian once Putin is defeated. March them all to the cities and fields in Ukraine where Russian troops committed mass genocide, rape and torture. We will never forget the evil Russia perpetrated. NEVER.

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Today Ronald Reagan would say, “Mr Putin, get the hell out of Ukraine.” He set the example for a strong “Peace through Strength” policy guided by strong values.

For four decades, American presidents have chased deals with the jihadist rulers of the Islamic Republic while sidelining millions of Iranians fighting for freedom. The zeal for a deal has failed repeatedly. Maybe it’s time for some zeal for the freedom of the Iranian people.

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Take a hard look at this image. Because it will be an iconic image that represents the beginning of the end for not just the Trump presidency but the cult known as MAGA. Neither will survive because they were both based on a foundation of lies, conspiracy theories, rage, and misinformation.

Vance is a pro-Putin, pro-Authoritarian traitor to the west. He is pro-Russia, anti-Europe, pro-autocrat, anti-democracy. Worse, he went from calling Trump “America’s Hitler” to, within a year completely selling his soul to join the Trump ticket. Any man who sells his soul so easily is not a real man, and certainly not a real leader fit for the presidency. As a principled conservative, who left the GOP in 2016 when Trump was elected, I will never vote for Vance under any circumstances.

REP. McCAUL: Putin's taking real hit now. Ukrainians surprised everyone with innovation. Fact that they’re pushing Russians back now, while inflicting 30,000 casualties a month on Russians, speaks volumes. We need to put pressure on Russia to negotiate from position of strength.

Republicans are in charge because we promised: to Make America Healthy Again. to start No New Wars, to put people above corporations, to put America above foreign countries, to release the Epstein files, to not spy on citizens, to eliminate fraud, what the hell happened?!

Trump and his admin are throwing a legal tantrum to delay removing his name from the Kennedy Center, which is embarrassing. While they're busy protecting his ego on a wall, real governance takes a backseat. This is what happens when you put a narcissist in power — even the smallest loss of status becomes an emergency. Take it down. No extensions.