as delusional as D'Souza
JR Dunn wrote a piece on "The Disgrace of Liberalism" at American Thinker that I can only describe as delusional. He begins with this assertion:
2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine.
This makes perfect sense, I guess, if one ignores the four decades of conservative governance between those dates: Liberalism is at the end of its viability because...conservatives have been in charge--and have failed monumentally--for forty years! Dunn's rhetoric continues to get the better of his logic throughout the piece, as in these sections:
The Democrats went into the 1968 presidential election as crippled as any political party in American history, choked with failure, bereft of ideas, and facing a general uprising from their own younger elements.[...]
Liberalism will stagger on. It still has control of all those urban political machines, along with the unions and bureaucracies. But it has no future. Personality cults and ideology will take you only so far. We may yet live to see this albatross removed from the nation's back.
Let's try correcting that analysis so that it more closely resembles reality, shall we? Here's my attempt:
2008 will mark the end of conservatism as a governing force and as a political doctrine. The Republicans go into this presidential election as crippled as any political party in American history: choked with failure, bereft of ideas, and facing a general uprising from their own younger elements.Conservatism will stagger on. It still has control of all those media outlets--along with the corporate boardrooms and executive suites--but it has no future. Personality cults and ideology can take them only so far, and we may yet live to see this GOP albatross removed from the nation's neck.
Reminder: only 296 days and 14 hours remain until our long national nightmare is over.