When Conservative Theory Collides With Unconservative Reality

Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

I didn’t want this system, but I’m not morally obligated to pretend this system doesn’t exist

as currently constituted. If Trump is going to change the rules of the rigged game so that we get screwed a little less, as he’s done on both tariffs and Big Pharma, cool. When you “principled” conservatives who demand unilateral free enterprise puritanism present me with an actual free enterprise paradigm, we can talk. Until then, we’re going to play the game by the game’s rules, and if you don’t like it, you can call me a “socialist” again.