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It is true that most neoconservatives accept the New Deal, although I would say not all of its trappings. However, most Republicans accept the New Deal to that degree, and in that sense there are hardly any intransigent conservatives left. However, most all of us believe in devolution, insofar as possible, and in a reduction of the role of government overall. I suppose the benchmark is the Great Society...I have heard Lew Rockwell speak. Do not follow the man over a cliff. He remains intransigent over the Federalist/Anti- Federalist debate, and retains a fundamental hostility to Abraham Lincoln and the supremacy of the Union. At this juncture, when he lays his cards on the table, he sounds like a monarchist in France would, utterly irrelevant. DeGaulle had it right:embrace the totality of "La Belle France", traditionalist and Republican, and claim a fundamental continuity. Similarly, conservatives cannot survive as a viable political force if they make out that the bulk of American history has been a vast mistake. Ronald Reagan was our DeGaulle, embracing the main sweep of our history... |
