“The US needs a thoughtful, serious conservative political party. That surely isn’t the GOP.”
Impossible, the only way to get an education that us accepted in this country is to attend left wing indoctrination center aka “college”. High level academics would consider someone with right wing thinking to be dissident if not racist/fascist.
All of western civ in Ivy League schools is being introduced as a history of racism if taught at all.
So where is conservative intelligence supposed to come from if it’s not taught in high level academia? Now we are stuck with populist leaders which are only reactionary and honestly becoming less and less intelligent with articulating their stances.