Casino and strip club magnate Donald Trump is a crude lout. His followers claim that such qualities are forgivable in an aspirant for the office of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, because Trump is a true conservative. In a recent posting, Jonah Goldberg penned a fine response to the assertion that conservativeness justifies systematic gross rudeness. In this article I will endeavor to address the more important pillar of Trump’s defense, to wit, the claim that he is a “true conservative.”  Donald Trump is not a conservative at all. To be a conservative, a person must support a number of principles including: limited government, free enterprise, rule of law, equal justice under law, individual rights, Judeo-Christian ethics, support of the classical virtues over the classical vices, opposition to corruption, adherence to truth, and support for the doctrines and system set forth by America’s founding fathers. Trump fails these tests on every...(Read Full Article)