Democrats are Authoritarian so Republican answer to their Ying is more?

The GOP is reaping the grains of philosophical discord sowed these past few years where Mitch McConnell determined that the party’s one and only mandate was to make Barack Obama a one term President. The National Review’s rejection of Trump because of his opportunism and lack of an ideology is priceless when one can say the same of Conservatism.  William F. Buckley, the magazine’s founder, broke out into intellectual and political circles in 1951 with his God and Man at Yale written just after his graduation and where he decried the collectivist perspective forced upon his individual one at college. With his publication he drew American Conservatism out of it’s John Birch Society hole and redirected it toward a Libertarian, Classical Liberal, political movement of liberty and individual freedom which moved to nominate Barry Goldwater as a Presidential candidate and culminated with the election of Ronald Reagan.  Conservatism and The Republican Party got off track, however, when with their adulation of Reagan they encouraged activist Evangelicals to politicize their values.  It’s curious that this happened under Reagan because there is no evidence that he was much of a church goer especially when compared to the Baptist sunday school teacher Jimmy Carter, but single issue pro lifers found a welcome in the GOP’s tent and party ideologues thereafter did not understand that these additional neutrons could cause the party to split. It’s a process called fission and in its nuclear form lets loose an awful lot undirected energy.

Evangelical authoritarian capture has redirected the party’s economic narrative to a crony capitalism worthy of the previous Gilded Age. Reagan swept into office after Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose market based celebration of the individual and freedom. Now the party pulse has ossified to the elitist strictures of Ludwig von Mises, a relic of the Austro Hungarian Empire and the ideological Laissez Faire orthodoxy of the previous Gilded Age.  That Theodore Roosevelt as described by Doris Kearns Goodwin in The Bully Pulpit, broke free of his class with a Trust Busting break up of the concentration of power is the greatness of his presidency which The Republican Party as presently constituted is completely blind to. The point of distinction between Von Mises and Friedman is that one has no respect for anyone less than an elite while the other is an egalitarian admirer of the little man and the swarm of individuals described in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations as working in their own self interest to create society's greatest good.  

The current Republican Orthodoxy is blind to its conspicuous celebrities doling out a cynical message of an equal opportunity ticket to the lottery of life. It supports along with Democrats the concentration of power in Washington because it morphed government largesse under their watch to the benefit of a few who coincidentally, or maybe not, are lead by the same name, J. P. Morgan.  The crux of the Republican problem is if Democrats are authoritarian, Barack Obama being a prime example of FDR authoritarianism, then what is their yang to the others ying; more authoritarianism?  The National Review is horrified by Trump because he his ideologically unhinged but so are they with their support for Ted Cruz.  He is the facile embodiment of a debater who can defend any proposition, even the impossible Conservative one that embraces free market matter and evangelical antimatter who will lead them to an empty annihilating mandate.