1/5 Interesting, yet insufficient, angle from Ted Cruz. Conservatives can become stewards of the working class, but it won't happen through the libertarian paranoia of government. In every functional political community, gvt has been present. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ted-cruz-future-of-conservatism-is-populist-and-libertarian

2/5 Conservatism’s classical liberal and libertarian factions have already harmed the movement, aligning it closer to neoliberalism than propagating an honest aspiration to conserve the heart of Western society-family, tradition, culture, and faith

3/5 In this regard, I don’t see libertarians underpinning a revitalized conservative movement. If we continue sacrificing at the altar of the GDP, our era’s cultural and moral decay will only accelerate.

4/5 What can be far more efficacious is a Disraelian model, an authentically One-Nation approach that can gain a groundswell of support from the working class and those dispirited by our unending societal erosion.

5/5 A Disraelian gvt would proactively aid the working class through a series of paternalistic programs. But it would, and Disraeli himself stressed it himself, need to protect the nation’s religious integrity- only a religious tradition can “rise above the strife of factions”.