We must regrow a true Conservative movement to displace the Party of Sedition (Part I)

There's no turning back to the Party of Sedition and Treason. Therein would lie tragedy and ruin.

But a single party system is also untenable. No party, unchallenged, is truly accountable.

We desperately need the Lincoln Republicans, Schmidt, Navarro, Romney, Cheney, Kinzinger, Chafee, Flake, Powell, Ridge, Gerson, Hagel, Hayden, Mattis, Whitman, Bush, McRaven, Comey, Mueller, Bolton, Kristol and others -- and yes, they're not all heroes -- to announce the formation of the Lincoln Republican Party. We need them to assert true conservative values -- accountability and lawfulness for everyone, fiscal integrity, the belief that something new needs to be thoroughly tested, respect for the tried and true but not the tried and failed, respect for Constitutional process without being wedded to original and outdated intent.

None of these values are part of the Party of Sedition. That is, conservatives still clinging to the seditionists may say they believe in personal accountability and other conservative values, but that has nothing to do with their vote.

Further, these values cannot all be healthfully incorporated into a Progressive movement which must be driven by a vision of a just society above all else.

A healthy society uses a conservative countervailing power bloc to double check progressive proposals for change. Like reactionaries, conservatives are aware that government solutions can have negative, unintended consequences and we count on them to "do the math." Unlike reactionaries, conservatives know that not all government initiatives fail. Further, conservatives understand that the Constitution itself is of no use ("promote the general welfare") if reactionary anti-change and antigovernment bias flourishes.

In an ideal society, the progressives push hard for change and the conservative double-checks the plan, including the finances.

Again, the Party of Sedition is neither interested nor capable of doing any of this. And fringe Ayn Randian libertarian reactionaries are as useful as a broken clock, repeating the same message at all times for all problems.

The primary danger of Trump's continued influence is that he, like Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch of late 1923, continues to threaten obliteration. But a secondary danger is that his vile vision for a gilded fascist state led by lawless authoritarianism is so captivating to so many horrible or horribly-deluded Americans, that there appears to be too little fertile soil to regrow a true Conservative movement in the US. And that is actually needed for long term survival.