America’s center has collapsed. But it can be restored if Republicans return to their roots.
Many now suggest that those who developed the conservative movement and built the party associated with it were not “real” conservatives or have somehow “sold out” the “true” conservative movement.
But the fact is that the current embodiment of Republicanism is an incoherent form of populism — sometimes leaning right, sometimes left.
Give it a name, support it if you feel you must, but be aware: It isn’t the responsible, conservative party America needs.
Members of Our Republican Legacy represent all who built the framework of conservatism as a structural institution. We stand firm in the belief that a responsible, conservative party in this country can be and in fact still is defined by five key principles that Republicans have historically championed, whatever their other differences.