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Next, it is okay to show some support for welfare and to use the government to solve problems, which is not necessarily a "liberal worldview". National Populist are center-right on the issue of welfare, and they are supporters of reforming many welfare programs to make them more pro-free market. But running on a platform of completely getting rid of them isn't exactly going to win Republicans the future as it once did 40 years ago. Donald Trump ran on a platform of reforming welfare and not gutting it, and that is how he won. There are many minorities out there like some blacks and Hispanics (especially Hispanics), who agree with us on matters of social policy but vote Democrat because of Democrat economic policy. While national populist by no means endorse Keynesianism, running on a platform of right-leaning economic populism will help you pick up some of these voters and realign them to the Republican Party and help us save the country. I have heard many people say they hate Obamacare but vote Democrat because the Republicans can't get a plan together on healthcare and want to have no healthcare at all. We could easily pick them up if we simply adopted Rand Paul's healthcare plan instead of wanting to return to what we had pre-2009. All we are saying basically is that we need to be more like Eisenhower on economics than Reagan in order to win. Also Robert A. Taft, the leader of the Old Right, supported expanding welfare a couple times in his career with Social Security and with some of the more reasonable parts of the Fair Deal, so adopting the populist view isn't like a liberal Republican thing. If you look at who voted for Trump in 2016 too on the political compass map, it actually shows most Trump voters were somewhat middle-of-the-road on economics and only slightly leaned to the right because of blue collar workers who supported him. Simply put, economic populism is essential to survival in the future. Also the government can be used as a tool to solve problems, and the conservative movement's failure to do this is why they have so often lost lately. The government could be used to trust-bust big megacorprations like Big Tech that censor us and it could be used to stop things like mask mandates and vaccine passports in the private sector, but conservatives are too cowardly to wield power the same way that the left does. If the left plays 4D Chess with government power as they do now, we can't play 3D chess and expect to win. The government must be used to preserve tradition and morality, and only then can we have it step out of the way in other areas and enjoy liberty. As Burke said, "Liberty cannot exist in the absence of morality." Many conservatives throughout history understood this concept and how to use government. Alexander Hamilton, the Father of American Conservatism, understood this. Abraham Lincoln understood this. Teddy Roosevelt understood this. 1950s conservatives like McCarthy understood this when it came to having the government blacklist communists. Other foreign conservatives like Francisco Franco understood this too. It is time for conservatives to return to their old ways on this issue.

Next, it is okay to show some support for welfare and to use the government to solve problems, which is not necessarily a "liberal worldview". National Populist are center-right on the issue of welfare, and they are supporters of reforming many welfare programs to make them more pro-free market. But running on a platform of completely getting rid of them isn't exactly going to win Republicans the future as it once did 40 years ago. Donald Trump ran on a platform of reforming welfare and not gutting it, and that is how he won. There are many minorities out there like some blacks and Hispanics (especially Hispanics), who agree with us on matters of social policy but vote Democrat because of Democrat economic policy. While national populist by no means endorse Keynesianism, running on a platform of right-leaning economic populism will help you pick up some of these voters and realign them to the Republican Party and help us save the country. I have heard many people say they hate Obamacare but vote Democrat because the Republicans can't get a plan together on healthcare and want to have no healthcare at all. We could easily pick them up if we simply adopted Rand Paul's healthcare plan instead of wanting to return to what we had pre-2009. All we are saying basically is that we need to be more like Eisenhower on economics than Reagan in order to win. Also Robert A. Taft, the leader of the Old Right, supported expanding welfare a couple times in his career with Social Security and with some of the more reasonable parts of the Fair Deal, so adopting the populist view isn't like a liberal Republican thing. If you look at who voted for Trump in 2016 too on the political compass map, it actually shows most Trump voters were somewhat middle-of-the-road on economics and only slightly leaned to the right because of blue collar workers who supported him. Simply put, economic populism is essential to survival in the future. Also the government can be used as a tool to solve problems, and the conservative movement's failure to do this is why they have so often lost lately. The government could be used to trust-bust big megacorprations like Big Tech that censor us and it could be used to stop things like mask mandates and vaccine passports in the private sector, but conservatives are too cowardly to wield power the same way that the left does. If the left plays 4D Chess with government power as they do now, we can't play 3D chess and expect to win. The government must be used to preserve tradition and morality, and only then can we have it step out of the way in other areas and enjoy liberty. As Burke said, "Liberty cannot exist in the absence of morality." Many conservatives throughout history understood this concept and how to use government. Alexander Hamilton, the Father of American Conservatism, understood this. Abraham Lincoln understood this. Teddy Roosevelt understood this. 1950s conservatives like McCarthy understood this when it came to having the government blacklist communists. Other foreign conservatives like Francisco Franco understood this too. It is time for conservatives to return to their old ways on this issue.