Walking the lonely road of conservatism is still getting lonelier
When I write articles about the lonely road of conservatism, I often share how my mission to be a voice in the wilderness calling for a return to Christian constitutional conservative values faces overwhelming opposition from not only the far left but also from Republicans and so-called conservatives.
In 2018, I wrote a piece sharing how walking the road of conservatism in the Age of Trump had become a lonely journey. And in 2020, I wrote another article on the subject sharing my story about the price I paid by choosing to walk the right road alone instead of walking the wrong road with the crowd.
Needless to say, being a conservative in the Age of Trump often leaves me feeling alone in the fight for conservatism, and the tyranny we’ve experienced under his leadership often leaves me feeling that we could be witnessing the last days of liberty and freedom.
I’ve never been shy about defending my Christian faith and how today’s lukewarm cheap grace church has destroyed the Good News of Jesus Christ; creating political conditions similar to those that gave rise to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Nor have I been shy about the stand I take in defense of our Constitutionally protected God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and how today’s Republican/Democrat duopoly has destroyed liberty, giving rise to tyranny.
Obviously, this has put me at odds with Democrats and the far-left, but it has also put me at odds with Republicans and so-called conservatives — a situation that isn’t very lucrative personally or professionally. Clearly, standing for my faith, the Constitution, and conservative values has come with a host of disadvantages, but that wasn’t always the case.
In the days of Obama, standing for conservative values was easy. After all, Obama was a Democrat with heavy socialist leanings, so opposing him was not only acceptable, but encouraged. Opposing Obama gave rise to the TEA Party and other conservative movements, and it helped give Republicans control of Congress. But, alas, Republicans revealed themselves as spineless cowards who were using the conservative movement for their own political gain, leveraging their newfound power to join Democrats in advancing the agendas of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.
Things didn’t get any better after Obama left office. In fact, they got worse when the former party of Reagan made a life-long Democrat with an “R” after his name the Republican standard bearer. During his first term, Donald Trump joined forces with the Republican Party to destroy conservatism and create a new party where Trumpism became the new party platform, and where conservatism was replaced by Nationalism.
And let’s not forget that Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s war against conservatism wouldn’t have had the success it did over the past many years if not for aid and comfort they received from the faux-conservative media. During that time, I lost many professional relationships because I refused to be a participant in the war against conservative values.
For example, talk personalities like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity turned FOX News into Trump TV, and Mark Levin and Glenn Beck merged Conservative Review and Blaze Media to create the pro-Trump echo chamber known as BlazeTV.
Donald Trump’s COVID tyranny made the lonely road lonelier over the past 5 years. People calling themselves Christians, conservatives, and constitutionalists often lambasted me and made ludicrous claims about me (personally) and my work. For example, some self-professing Christians accused me of being “anti-life” and an accessory to homicide for questioning the actions of a government using police state tactics to mandate masks and shut down businesses, schools, and churches while keeping abortion facilities open.
I’ve experienced increasing numbers of people promising to no longer support my work, and most have kept that promise. But if my primary motivation was to increase the number of supporters and followers, I would have followed the rest of the faux-conservative media through the wide gate of compromise a long time ago.
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If you’re a believer, I solicit your prayers. The spiritual warfare has always been intense, but the battle in the heavenlies has grown in intensity lately. As Ephesian 6:12 tells us, “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
The death of true conservatism and the rise of socialism is no longer in doubt. The only question remaining is how will we respond? For me, I’ll remain on the road of my principals. It’s a lonely road and it’s getting lonelier, but as stated above, I would still rather walk the right road alone than walk the wrong road with the crowd.
One last thought.
In The Book of Jeremiah, we learn that Jeremiah was called to be a prophet at an unfortunate time as the decline of Judah was already well under way. Many suggested that his message was one of condemnation, not salvation, but Jeremiah still delivered God’s message to a people desperately clinging to nationalism. He was rejected as a meddler and a traitor, and many people, nobles, and kings, alternately tried to put him to death.
I’m not comparing myself to Jeremiah, but I can certainly identify with his story.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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