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OP-ED: “Darkness At Dusk: Republicans have lost, but they have not learned,” by David Brooks, New York Times, 11 November 2008.
Brooks posits a struggle between the Traditionalists (“cut government, cut taxes, restrict immigration,” etc.) and Reformers (moderates), and says the Traditionalists are convinced they did not lose over the issues, but because they presented themselves badly. This is basically Bill Bennett’s analysis on CNN.
Brooks says the Traditionalists are missing the realignment, an argument you see refuted in op-ed after op-ed in the WSJ.
Brooks thus opines:
In short, the Republican Party will probably veer right in the years ahead, and suffer more defeats. Then, finally, some new Reformist donors and organizers will emerge. They will build new institutions, new structures and new ideas, and the cycle of conservative ascendance will begin again.
This is why I predict Obama gets two terms.
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