Skip to main content

2016: A Conservative Odyssey

2016: A Conservative Odyssey

Listen to audio version of this article

Members only

With Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, conservatives find themselves in an awkward position. For months, most of us could not conceive of a Trump candidacy as anything more than a flash-in-the-pan publicity stunt designed to produce ratings. Others believed the GOP's conservative "establishment" too entrenched to allow an inexperienced, undisciplined insurgent with a dangerous streak of self-indulgence to have any reasonable shot at the White House. [perfectp

With Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, conservatives find themselves in an awkward position. For months, most of us could not conceive of a Trump candidacy as anything more than a flash-in-the-pan publicity stunt designed to produce ratings. Others believed the GOP's conservative "establishment" too entrenched to allow an inexperienced, undisciplined insurgent with a dangerous streak of self-indulgence to have any reasonable shot at the White House. [perfectp…