I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man…

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.…

— Mark Steyn

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

— Sam Tanenhaus

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs…

— Irving Kristol

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until…

— Thomas Frank

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

— Revilo P. Oliver

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

— Max Boot

American conservatism always has been plagued by an irrational distaste for homosexuality, a robust and righteous hate for the sin that cannot help extending…

— Norah Vincent

For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home.…

— Marvin Olasky

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

— Richard Cohen

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative…

— Charles Krauthammer

To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest,…

— Russell Kirk

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism.…

— Robert Lighthizer

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in…

— Andrew Sullivan

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

— Thomas Mallon

With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege.

— Charlie Sykes