It needs to definitely be about conservatism, not Donald Trump

Watching the proceedings at the Lincoln Memorial and reflecting on the confirmation hearings of the last week. And the venom and squeals of existential anguish I've had to wade through on social media. And the lies of formerly presumably exemplary leading lights of journalism as a worthy human endeavor, such as the New York Times.

I can't go all in on some kind of response of disgust or getting my cackles up or whatever with regard to the bulging-eyes-contorted-musculature reaction the Left is having to what is transpiring.

I share a little of it.

I still find Donald Trump a loathesome and boneheaded person.

It could have and should have been Ted Cruz. Or, if one really insists, Marco Rubio.

But here we are, and, per many recent posts here, there are many developments worthy of cheer, the cabinet and agency appointments chief among them.

But what arises in my mind in some cases is the truth that all developments in this fallen realm have a taint about them.

Lefties were having a field day with the now-exposed New York Times lie about Rick Perry not knowing what the Energy Department's basic mission was or the basics of its structure. I haven't seen a lot of it yet, but what it seems to me would have been much lower-hanging fruit were two statements from last year: Perry calling Squirrel-Hair a cancer on conservatism, and him calling for the dismantling of the agency he will now head. (That last one is getting some traction; some lefty paper - I forget which - used the word "contrite" in its headline over the story about his walking that back, something he had to do, given the gravity of his hearing.)

This kind of thing is not without precedent. It's a rough and tumble world. History is replete with examples of political foes burying the hatchet to ally in pursuit of an end of mutual benefit. The most extreme example may be Churchill and Roosevelt forging an alliance with Stalin.

But factor in the kiss-Donald's-ring element. Harken back to those days in the last two months of 2016, all the photo ops of various people in the lobby of Trump Tower, waiting on the elevator.

Perry is a Christian. He also understands free-market economics. I don't think he swallows the hooey about the global climate being in any kind of trouble. Because he is these things, I foresee a day when he may have to respectfully dissent from what his boss wants.

I can see that with some others as well. It may come up with Mattis re: NATO. It may come up with Tom Price re: "covering everybody."

But Perry will have the most interesting experience of having such a moment transpire very publicly. He is on record saying things that are not complimentary about the man who is now his boss (things, which, by the way, are exactly how I see Squirrel-Hair), and that will not ever completely fade from public memory.

Not should it.

The point for - well- for me, anyway - conservatives is that conservative policy prevail.

That's what a fitting legacy for the era we are just now embarking on would look like.