GOP ’23: What a longtime Michigan conservative writer thinks of the GOP
“Populism and conservativism are, in my mind, incompatible,” says columnist Nolan Finley.
Nolan Finley in WDET's studios, Dec. 2, 2016.
On Detroit Today, we’ve been exploring what conservatism is and what policies Republicans want to enact. This has been part of our “GOP ’23: Where the Party At?” series.
We’ve heard from Michigan Republicans, a conservative who believes the philosophy’s ideals are in tension with the modern Republican Party, and what libertarians make of their connection to the contemporary Republican Party.
In this episode, we sat down with conservative columnist Nolan Finley to understand what he makes of the Republican Party and discuss whether conservative ideals still drive its focus.
“True conservatives stand for free people, free minds, free markets. You saw a lot of encroachment on those ideals over the last five or six years by people who call themselves Republicans.” — Nolan Finley, columnist
Listen: The perspective of a longtime Michigan conservative writer.
Guest
Nolan Finley is an editorial page editor of The Detroit News. He says Donald Trump and populists that support him are not political conservatives, and don’t follow the principles of conservatism.
“True conservatives stand for free people, free minds, free markets. You saw a lot of encroachment on those ideals over the last five or six years by people who call themselves Republicans,” says Finley.
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