Forget missing the forest for the trees. As the presidential election nears, many conservatives are focused on individual leaves while ignoring the arsonist who wants to light the whole forest on fire. The arsonist in question is Vice President Kamala Harris, who is easily the most radical presidential nominee in history.
She leads a party that now rejects the fundamental principle that Americans are in charge of the country. Today’s Democrats envision an all-powerful government run by a master class of “experts” who control what our children learn in school, what cars we buy, how much groceries cost and virtually every part of daily life. In their vision of the future, the people don’t rule America; Washington does — end of story.
On the other side is former President Donald Trump. A deeply flawed candidate? Yes. A principled man? No.
Yet on the whole, the leader of the Republican Party advocates the polar opposite philosophy of Ms. Harris and the Democrats. Mr.
Trump has called for massively shrinking the federal bureaucracy, creating an “efficiency commission” focused on making government work and slashing one-size-fits-all regulations and taxes. This isn’t a socialist vision of government control. It’s an American vision of freedom.
You’d think conservatives would recognize the stakes, not out of loyalty to Mr. Trump but out of a philosophical commitment to the American ideal. But that’s not what many conservatives are doing.
Instead of acknowledging.