"Conservatism" used to be a political philosophy with which I had many disagreements.

[JHB]

8. Can you point to any instance in the last 30 years of the conservative movement...

...where they showed the slightest interest in "healing"?

Tell it to the Rockefeller Republicans, if you can find any left.

They built a political machine that scorns compromise, treats opposition as illegitimate, and turns on "backsliders" as traitors. It's pushed them farther and farther to the right. People who were "arch-conservative" 15-20 years ago are considered RINOs now.

They're not conservatives, they're radicals, and have been since William F. Buckley was merely an undergrad Yalie prick.

They don't want to heal, they want to remove an infestation, which in their eyes is us.

Maybe Not all of them, but the ones driving the agenda do, and the rest go along with them.

You want the country to heal? Break the conservative radical's hold on the Republican party.