Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated
Peter Berkowitz, WSJ
Last August left little doubt that a conservative revival was underway. Constituents packed town-hall meetings across the country to confront Democratic House members and senators ill-prepared to explain why, in the teeth of a historic economic downturn and nearly 10% employment, President Obama and his party were pressing ahead with costly health-care legislation instead of reining in spending, cutting the deficit and spurring economic growth.Still, whether that revival would have staying power was very much open to question. A year later—and notwithstanding the Democrats'...
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