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For decades, American conservatism sold itself as a moral upgrade. Discipline. Responsibility. Respect for the law. Work hard, play by the rules, accept consequences. It sounded stern, serious, almost puritanical. And it worked, because myths only survive when they feel familiar. But beneath the sermon was a loophole so large you could drive a corporate jet through it: discipline was always meant for other people.

The working poor were lectured about “personal responsibility” while Wall Street received bailouts without handcuffs. Inner cities were flooded with police and prisons while boardrooms were flooded with bonuses after financial collapse. When a single mother missed a welfare form, she was a moral failure. When banks laundered money, crashed the global economy, and wiped out pensions, they were “too big to fail.” Conservative virtue was never about restraint. It was about hierarchy.

Law and order became the slogan, but enforcement followed wealth, not principle. Iran-Contra ended without real accountability. The architects of torture after September 11 published memoirs and landed book deals instead of indictments. George W. Bush launched a war on false pretenses that killed hundreds of thousands and destabilized an entire region, yet no conservative movement demanded prison. Apparently, accountability was only sacred when it could be weaponized downward.

Then came Donald Trump, a man who did not even pretend to embody conservative morality. Serial infidelity, open corruption, casual contempt for the Constitution, public admiration for dictators. And here is the uncomfortable truth: he did not break conservative values. He tested them. And they collapsed instantly.

The same politicians who spent years moralizing about character suddenly discovered a new theology: winning absolves everything. Evangelical leaders who once condemned Bill Clinton for private behavior declared Trump “chosen.” The party that preached fiscal discipline exploded the deficit with tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. The movement that claimed to worship the rule of law rallied behind a man who treated judges, prosecutors, and juries as enemies to be punished.