The gallant British and the brave American Tories lost the war of 1776-83. The only American conservatives were then deported.
We should have freed the slaves and won with their help, then executed the Founding Fathers.Our defeat led to the French Revolution and eventually to Marxism, girls in slacks and all the horrors of the modern world.
Since then all Americans have been liberals except for Marxists and the insignificant number of fascists.
Now England, of course, is an American colony.
Perhaps Mr Trump will be an isolationist and set us (and the rest of the world) free, but I know he won't.
Circa 1760, British arms had been quite successful in America. British and colonial forces had just captured Canada, effectively ending what Americans call the French and Indian War.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the French once gone, the colonists started to wonder why they really needed British troops and British taxes.