{"id":14365,"date":"2018-01-26T02:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2018-01-26T02:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T09:45:53","slug":"what-makes-a-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/01\/26\/what-makes-a-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes A Conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What is <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/13\/american-governance-and-the-future-of-conservatism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatism<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2fGkyUtMhw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what makes a conservative<\/a>? There are many different descriptions, from <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/09\/23\/thus-a-traditional-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burke and Stephens<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/11\/08\/sun-tzu-the-conservative-fight-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk and Meyer<\/a>. This task is complicated by the fact that conservativism, in the Anglo-American vein, is not a proscriptive ideology, but a descriptive observation of what is already extant and inalienably so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Soon to be former MEP Daniel Hannan opines on the subject:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2fGkyUtMhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For freedom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fort_Moultrie_flag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fort_Moultrie_flag.png 763w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fort_Moultrie_flag-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What Makes A Conservative?\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"What is conservatism, and what makes a conservative?  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This task is complicated by the fact that conservativism, in the Anglo-American vein, is not a proscriptive ideology, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/01\/26\/what-makes-a-conservative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,62],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-patriotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14366,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions\/14366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}