r/Conservative • u/Yosoff First Principles • Nov 25 '16
And the winner is... Donald J. Trump!
The community has voted and Donald J. Trump shall grace the sidebar position of honor for the next week. Special thanks to /u/CATHOLIC_EXTREMIST for the winning submission. The voting was close with Rand Paul coming in only two points behind.
On behalf of the mod team, thanks to everyone who contributed and voted. We were impressed by all of the outstanding suggestions and will be using several of them in the future.
If you missed the event, feel free to add your suggestions to the thread because we will refer to it for ideas from time to time. We also have these 'Community Vote' sidebar weeks every few months, so you will get another chance.
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u/jivatman Conservative Nov 25 '16 edited Nov 25 '16
My favorite part of this speech however is:
The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.
Because it's making a more explicit philosophical statement of his philosophy, no just in a policy sense (We've negotiated bad trade deals) but in an true culture sense (true foundation for happiness and harmony). Also, while Trump is clearly an American exceptionalism, it goes beyond that because it's applicable not just to the U.S, but other countries, or at least Western Ones.
That is why many European Nationalists like Trump - Notably Victor Orban of Hungary was an early endorser of Trump, and has criticized 'Liberal Non-Democracy', there is an actual ideological kinship. Similarly, this is why Progressives have lost their shit over him, because this represents a fundamental ideological challenge to progressiveness that Bush/Mccain/Romney didn't.
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u/aboardthegravyboat Conservative Nov 25 '16
We're going to MAGA, and then we're going to ME(urope)GA, and then we're going to make Mexico great again, and then we're going to keep this train rolling. It's not about using nationalism to squash federalism. It's not about imperialism. It's about proving that global harmony can come through nationalism much easier than through globalism.
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u/richardguy Я делаю это бесплатно Nov 25 '16
That was one of the best parts of any speech he's given out. That and /u/jivatman 's excerpt
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Nov 25 '16
Glad my suggestion resonated with so many people. I think Paul is also an important figurehead of the right and I think Trump's administration (as seen through appointments and speeches) has already shown a huge Paul-ian vain with huge focuses on school choice, anti-adventurism abroad, and the most combative stance with the fed since we went off the gold standard. I fully expect Trump and Paul to be making America great again over the next 8 years!
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Nov 25 '16
Nice. Last generation we fought the cold war, this generation we will fight globalism. Trump was the right choice.
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u/DEFCON_TWO Theodore Roosevelt Nov 26 '16
I just wish I could use the subreddit style in Night Mode.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '16
BREAKING: Jill Stein is raising money to demand a recount, believing the sidebar voting system, being entirely electronic, is vulnerable to cheating.