Article: Symposium.(Republican Party and American conservative movement)

Q: After three decades, has the conservative movement triumphed?

Yes: After fighting the good fight for so long, the movement has begun to have impact.

Agreeing with TS. Eliot that there only are temporary victories and defeats in life, I believe that the American conservative movement politically has triumphed -- for the time being.

Whether we consider how far conservatives have come since 1946, when theirs was a political philosophy that dared not speak its name, or even since 1980, when conservative Ronald Reagan was elected president for the first time, no word other than "triumph" will do.

When Republicans in 1994 captured the ...

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