GrandOldParty-RuleOfLaw

 ME: He and the male part of his family are throwing an intimidation campaign threatening to end the political careers (next election) of any who favor the impeachment. Scoundrel.  This smells like witness intimidation. I wrote: Two things I think, both wishful thinking as to influence: 1. Trump's hard and furious intimidation campaign seems very much like witness intimidation in a court case.  Maybe I watch too many tv court cases. 2. I am absolutely convinced, as I'm sure many of you are, that this whole thing started 5 years ago or before, backed by the Mercers, Bannon participation, and Jones and Stone. as a carefully designed plan to brainwash as much of the public and officials as possible: a)  Loud and emotional tugging, totally repetitive with every opportunity to say a word: b)  Mainline press is not to be trusted. (Which leaves XXXX as trustworthy.... there are some real duzzies out there supplying memes) c) Rallies - just as many as possible, with tho...

  600,000  The estimated attendance at President Trump’s inauguration, roughly a third of what President Barack Obama drew 180,000 Based on the above, the estimated attendance at Obama's inauguration.

 https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/ Note that this is condensed from, but yet I admit is largely plagiarized from the kirkcenter article. I find it almost impossible to greatly condense it and still retain the good meaning of it. In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet he knows that healthy “change is the means of our preservation.”) A people’s historic continuity of experience, says the conservative, offers a guide to policy far better than the abstract designs of coffee-house philosophers. But  there is more to this matter.. First, the conservative believes that there exists an enduring moral order.  That order is made for man, and man is made for it: human nature is a constant, and moral truths are permanent. This word   order   signifies harmony. There are two aspects or types of order: the inner order of the soul, and the outer order of the co...