text: The regular posters on this forum at the Globe and Mail who identify themselves as Conservatives are frequently mean-spirited, intolerant, ignorant, and they incessantly quote columnists from The National Post, Breitbart, Fox News, and The Rebel. 
  
  Many of them seem to be unquestioning supporters of Donald Trump and are blind to his many faults and failings as both a man and as POTUS. 
  
  At the same time, they have nothing good to say about our current federal government, or any government not headed by a Conservative, and never tire of making juvenile comments about the Prime Minister's hair, or his popularity with the mass media. 
  
  To these people, terms like "progressive" and "social justice" are ideas to be derided.
  
  Perhaps the old Progressive Conservative Party could cast a wide net and attempt to appeal to voters outside their base. The current Conservatives, with their ties to the old Reform Party base and to fundamentalist Christians, is much less appealing to many voters.