By which I mean that many of them have sane, well-articulated ideas. This piece from The American Conservative is a prime example. It is an intelligent, thoughtful analysis of the impact war can have on an entire political culture, one that compares the impact of Iraq on Republicans to the impact of Vietnam on the Democrats. I can't think of a single thing in it with which I disagree, and I frankly think that every voting American ought to read, at the very least, its final words:
Although the [Republican] party still sees Ronald Reagan when it looks in the
mirror, what the rest of the country sees is George W. Bush—much as
post-Vietnam Democrats continued to think of themselves as the party of
Franklin Roosevelt when in the minds of most Americans they had become
the party of Johnson and McGovern.
Until the Republican Party can come to grips with its failure, the Democrats will be the party Americans trust to govern.
Amen.
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