“Democrat Grover Cleveland was America’s last conservative president. He preached and practiced the maxim that ‘the people must support the government, but the government must not support the people.”

—  Ilana Mercer

“ Trump Doesn’t Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-doesnt-need-to-talk-like-a-conservative/,” WND.com, March 17, 2016
2010s, 2016

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