"Muh cult of personality" is a collectivist smear against any movement that opposes them. You don't hear anyone denouncing the insane mass worship of Obama, which greatly exceeded any similar support for Trump. Why not? Because he was a personality pushing for global communism, and his cultists were the "good kind" of fanatics.
You cannot have a strong nation or a strong individualist populist movement without equally strong and charismatic leaders who inspire and direct the people. Globalists will always denounce such leaders as demagogues and their supporters as cultists. The very idea of a nation is anethema to their goals. They will always push for weak leaders and unenthusiastic nationalism because they want your nation to vanish.
Sure you can. Ideology js more than the people who follow them. If your principles are sound, you don't need the strong leader, as another one can take its place as long as they align closely enough with its values.
Thats how the left infects new people with their ideologies. Only difference is once they lose power the ideas have to compete until a new orthodoxy emerges. Hence why social justice is so radically against many of the old communist talking points.
On the flip side, the founding principles of conservatism more or less can remain the same so long as its system remains. Sure, populism can help, but no person is without sin and populism is not required to win. Besides, people have whims, ideas do not, meaning even with imperfect people, as long as their ideas are sound, you can point to accomplishments.
"Muh cult of personality" is a collectivist smear against any movement that opposes them. You don't hear anyone denouncing the insane mass worship of Obama, which greatly exceeded any similar support for Trump. Why not? Because he was a personality pushing for global communism, and his cultists were the "good kind" of fanatics.
You cannot have a strong nation or a strong individualist populist movement without equally strong and charismatic leaders who inspire and direct the people. Globalists will always denounce such leaders as demagogues and their supporters as cultists. The very idea of a nation is anethema to their goals. They will always push for weak leaders and unenthusiastic nationalism because they want your nation to vanish.
Scientology doesn't poll well either, but that hasn't hurt David Miscavige. Obama's cultists are in positions of power.
Sure you can. Ideology js more than the people who follow them. If your principles are sound, you don't need the strong leader, as another one can take its place as long as they align closely enough with its values.
Thats how the left infects new people with their ideologies. Only difference is once they lose power the ideas have to compete until a new orthodoxy emerges. Hence why social justice is so radically against many of the old communist talking points.
On the flip side, the founding principles of conservatism more or less can remain the same so long as its system remains. Sure, populism can help, but no person is without sin and populism is not required to win. Besides, people have whims, ideas do not, meaning even with imperfect people, as long as their ideas are sound, you can point to accomplishments.