Speaker Kevin McCarthy Pass or Fail?

Conservatives behave and act like their job is merely to slow the advance of progressivism, or at least block it from gaining more and more ground. Conservatives have to work to destroy progressive advances on the American constitutional order and replace them with sound political and moral principles.’ Robert Reinsch, Heritage Foundation – February 2023.
Achieving this will require building and moving. It requires action. Not a political fight but a greater responsibility of self-governing authority. The Federalist Papers address these things and there we can read how Americans must be a constitutional people.
In 1963 the Conservative Affirmation was written by Willmoore Kendall. He was a political scientist and a professor. The book was released again in 2022. At the time of its original release, there were contrast and comparisons made with a progressive ideaology book written by Charles Frankel called The Democratic Prospect.
It’s interesting that in the Conservative Affirmation by Kendall he suggests that an authoritative statement of conservatism in the U.S. can be obtained by going back to the intention of the founders written in the Federalist papers. There, it was written, equal treatment of persons before the law with the formation of public policy through deliberations of virtuous agents rather than numerical majorities. Kendall favored Congressional majority as it is more sober and closer to the people.
Kendall noticed that Liberals favored Presidential majority to weaken Congress and the power of the people. I’m bringing this up to point out a few things. First, this liberal/conservative argument has been alive and well since the inception of this country. 60 years ago, it was still alive and well. Today? It may feel this is all new, but we’ve been here before. We’ve been here since the beginning 247 years ago.
So, the question becomes are the Republican Party, the 118th Congress, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy stopping or slowing down liberalism, or are they helping advance it? On this episode of Our Lives and Politics, Booker Scott measures the pulse of the people in a live Twitter/X Space to get a grade on the first 8 months of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and Kevin McCarthy. What do you think? Have they passed or failed?
As Willmoore Kendall wrote 60 years ago, it’s not about stopping or slowing down liberalism it’s about destroying the liberal advances.