Republican Rot

There’s a couple of conservatives on Bill Moyers’ Journal this week discussing where conservatism went wrong. One thing that they said which I think is correct is that the Republicans are basically in the same place that the Democrats found themselves in 1972 or 1980. They might kid themselves that they just lost a couple of elections in a row and they can bounce back, but there are deep underlying problems with their party that will doom them to minority status in Congress for a very long time. Maybe we can discuss those problems…

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.