Hillary Clinton as Arch-Conservative

The most conservative candidate left in the presidential race by far is Hillary Clinton. The most conservative people I know support her.

No I don't mean the constellation of political opinions associated with the Republican Party. I mean conservative in a deeper sense, that of wanting to preserve the existing order, and the interconnected institutions that support it. Right now, that order means what we call the Establishment.

Right now Progressives are arch-conservatives. This is not surprising since Progressivism is now almost a century into its run, and the Establishment is over seventy years old.

Progressives are conservatives in the sense that they want the jurisdictional power structure, namely the Federal Government, to be maintained in all its powers and even expanded. They want it to be respected as a good thing. They want international institutions such as the United Nations to be rspected as well, and augmented in their scope of influence. They want Americans to give deference to the highest global authorities, as they see it.

They want the current structure of soft influencers---the media, and pop culture figure---to continue to serve as arbiters and filters of what is socially and morally acceptable, as they currently do (unless you are within a subculture, such as Evangelical Christians).

Hillary Clinton is the last great "elephant" of this Order, at least within the public political sphere, on both the right and left. There are a few others lumbering around but they are becoming living fossils.

The degree to which you want the Establishment to keep going is the degree to which you will find Hillary to be an attractive candidate.

The degree to which you want the Establishment to fall is the degree to which you will find Hillary to be an unattractive candidate.