[From “Can Conservativism be Maintained in a Democracy?”]

American conservative media pundits argue that in order to restore liberty and conservative ideas: all the citizens need to do is defeat the Democrats and replace establishment Republicans with true conservatives. We are never told how this is to be achieved when the overwhelming majority of voters are raised by a government teaching them to hate conservative ideas while our culture promotes progressivism[…]
Even the times under the Articles of Confederation, and later under the Constitution were not the libertarian paradise[…]Just as the Tories warned replacing a king with politicians would do, it quickly became far more tyrannical under local and federal representatives than under King George[…]
American Christians celebrate our perceived conservative and Christian form of governance, but compared to the Middle Ages we would be viewed as secular and progressive[…]
By their nature, democracy, representatives, and legislative branches are progressive. Under medieval kingship, the law and government have no professional legislative branch. Law did not “evolve” or grow; it remained intact and protected[…]
So long as the democratic state exists, liberty and property rights need diligent protection. Even if you play great defense and win 95% of the time, the other 5% will drastically transform society[…]
Conservatives must be aware that the progressive ideas of the past are now being embraced and advocated by their own leaders and politicians. They reject only sections of the current progressive agenda[…]
Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln defeated the libertarians and reactionaries of the South and destroyed the last remnants of the Founder’s Republic[…]
What the Founders meant by “we the people” differed significantly from Lincoln’s or the modern Republicans’ belief in urban masses and voter expansion. The former meant the large landowning aristocratic representatives of sovereign states