I want to come up with a more inclusive definition of Americanism, for in my estimation people are polarized enough as is…but not all inclusive, you have to draw the line somewhere, and I draw it well before Klaus Anal Schwab’s build back better.
Essentially Americanism is national liberalism.
All Americanists oughta have these things in common: America should exist as a sovereign nation state with borders, as a liberal democratic republic with a constitution, separation of powers and states’ rights.
Beyond that Americanism can be divided into several subtypes, chief among them:
classical/conservative liberalism, libertarianism and social liberalism.
- Conservative Liberals (fiscally: libertarian leaning, socially: moderately conservative or populist (traditional white Christian family values).
- Libertarians are pretty self-explanatory.
- Social Liberals (fiscally: moderately progressive or populist (social welfare and workers’ rights), socially: libertarian leaning, not woke.
Here’s my narrative:
While republicans and democrats were of course always corrupt like anything, republicans use to loosely adhere to conservative liberalism and democrats to social liberalism, but gradually republicans got infiltrated and subverted by neocon globalists masquerading as conservative liberals while democrats got infiltrated and subverted by shitlib globalists masquerading as social liberals.
Of course conservative liberalism rather than libertarianism or social liberalism comes closest to the original liberalism of the US like the name suggests.
Today the overwhelming majority of conservative liberals are white Christians, but a few are nonwhite and irreligious.
Most of them are rural, working or lower middleclass but some are (sub)urban, middle or upperclass.
First and foremost they believe in the constitution, in free speech, gun liberalization and due process, in national sovereignty, the separation of powers and states’ rights.
Most are against further fiscal intervention other than to protect jobs from being outsourced to China, Mexico and other parts of the developing world and to prevent foreigners from buying up American housing, jobs and natural resources.
Think of them as national capitalists as opposed to global capitalists.
Most want strong borders, to close sanctuary cities and deport illegals.
Some are civic nationalists, others are white Christian nationalists.
Most are against nation building, preemptive and regime change wars.
Most are against abortion, euthanasia, CRT, gay marriage, transsexualism, drug liberalization and are tough on crime.
Lastly I want to mention most are against the technocrats’ medical apartheid.
Basically these’re the ‘deplorables’ Killary Shillary referred to in the republican party.
Up until recently, conservative liberals voted for neolibcon globalists like Reagan, HW and W, but in 2016 they opted for Trump instead.
Trump was wishy washy, he wasn’t a neocon, but he wasn’t a paleocon either, he was all over the map, which pissed shitlibs and neocons off, they hate paleocons, as well as people they can’t fully predict, and control.
For all his foibles, Trump was a step in the right direction.
If conservative liberals want their values represented at all, they’ll have to vote 3rd party, independent or at the very least outsiders within the republican party, otherwise they will lose their country to globalism.