Modern Conservatives will utter these corny talking points and pretend like it’s a refutation of the broader point that Postliberals are making, as if the Founding Fathers would have EVER agreed with the 20th century Progressive worldview that Conservatives seek to conserve today. Let me tell you what the Founding Fathers actually believed, using their own words. “Men … wholly destitute of Property, are also too little acquainted with public Affairs to form a Right Judgment, and too dependent upon other Men to have a Will of their own. … Very few Men, who have no Property, have any Judgment of their own.” - John Adams “The people he said, immediately should have as little to do as may be about the Government. They want information and are constantly liable to be misled.” - James Madison recording Roger Sherman’s thoughts at the Constitutional Convention “The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue; but are the dupes of pretended patriots. … He had been too republican heretofore: He was still however republican, but had been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit.” - James Madison recording Elbridge Gerry’s thoughts at the Constitutional Convention “Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison “Is not, Representation, an essential, a fundamental departure from Democracy? Is not every Representative Government, in the Universe, an Aristocracy? … Representation and Democracy, are contradictions in terms.” - John Adams “If all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. … And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” - George Washington “The general diffusion of Christian knowledge hath a natural tendency to correct the morals of men, restrain their vices, and preserve the peace of society; which cannot be effected without a competent provision for learned teachers.” - Patrick Henry “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.” - John Jay “The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion; and the French ladies miscalculate much their own happiness, when they wander from the true field of their influence, into that of politics.” - Thomas Jefferson “But why exclude Women? … because their Delicacy renders them unfit for Practice and Experience, in the great Business of Life, and the hardy Enterprizes of War, as well as the arduous Cares of State.” - John Adams “To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they put foot in our country, as recommended in the Message, would be nothing less, than to admit the Grecian Horse into the Citadel of our Liberty and Sovereignty.” - Alexander Hamilton “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” - Thomas Jefferson If the Founders were here today, you would call them Woke Right reactionary racist misogynists whose anti-American views are a danger to the future direction of the Right.