And when we look around for a conservatism that would seek some moderation at this juncture, we see only cowardice from elected Republicans.
Once again: The Republican Party is not a conservative party in any meaningful sense of the word; it is a radical party animated by crude, anti-intellectual fundamentalisms and dedicated to vandalizing whatever is beyond its comprehension.
It is not the pragmatic, forward-looking realism of Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, even Richard Nixon. It is the unfocused and uninhibited malice of George Wallace.