It seems completely lost on the liberal world view, that to be a conservative has nothing to do with participating in some “movement.” Conservatism is a way of life, a mission to live by a code of personal conduct, while to the conservative, “movements” are a thing one does in the privacy of one’s bathroom to rid oneself of toxic waste.

I have been surrounded by truly conservative people in their ways and means all my life, many of them who have also been solid Democrats in their politics. (Imagine that: a conservative Democrat; how I do miss them and the role they once played in keeping reckless and impulsive liberals from having too much power…) For them, being conservative has to do with how one prioritizes family and community over causes and marches, while to participate in politics at all seems an unnatural and unpleasant chore.

For conservative Republicans, the primary apparent purpose of political action is to keep liberals and their knee-jerk leftist social experiments from becoming the law of the land, not to impose anything on anyone but rather to keep what is intolerable from being imposed on themselves.

This business of marching and chanting and no-platforming more resembles the toddler who threatens to hold his breath until he gets his way, than it does any sincere political activity to create benefits or make gains. I say, as one does of the toddler: let them. They’ll miss breathing air, soon enough.