This should be the political peak of American conservatism. For the first time since the 1920s, the Republican Party controls the presidency and both houses of Congress. In exchange for all the sacrifices to political expediency, and all the partisan loyalty to the Republicans, that conservatives have given over the years, we were to be rewarded, for the first time, with a truly conservative government.
And with what, in fact, have we been rewarded? Pure, unaltered, stinky, squishy, heaping mounds of shit. A federal spending orgy the likes of which Democrats can only dream of. Open borders through which hordes of people dedicated to the destruction of this country stream on a daily basis. The right war, but for the wrong reason -- the Trotskyite dream of prancing around the world "spreading democracy." What nonsense. What disappointment.
Conservatives have sacrificed much to the political gods over the past few generations. We have put aside our dislike of ideology and we have focused much more on partisan political advantage than any true conservative, in his heart, truly finds tasteful. And it has been a grave error. As cultural and civic institutions, along with the social and moral order, have died neglected all around us, we have focused like a laser-beam (and, incidentally, like good liberals) on the political order as our only chance for a saving grace. And as we should have expected, we have failed. Perhaps this is the time for conservatives to re-think their marriage of convenience with the Republican Party, to re-think their focus on politics to the exclusion of so much else that is important. Society cannot be restored from the top down by politics. We have tried that, and look at the result.
