Wholesale adoption of Republican principles. When you see compromise as a failure, the only form of moderation you can recognize is when your opponent totally capitulates.
THEY...don't even adopt Republican principles...all of the guys below respectively raised taxes, spent a lot of money, expanded the government they professed to want to drown in a bathtub, got into costly unfunded wars, created new entitlements...and so on. Reagan raised taxes half a dozen times, exploded the national debt and yet he's a fungible demigod to these folks...WTF? When do these people come to square with reality as it is and not as they imagine it to be?
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, two George Bushes — none of them could make real the rhetoric conservatives used to rally the like-minded. “In response,” Dionne writes, “movement conservatives advanced an ever purer ideology, certain that doing so would eventually bring them the triumphs that had eluded them.” It not only hasn’t happened, but Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. Gerrymandering and the inherent red-state bias of the Senate has created a near-eternal divided government, with a Republican Party that’s “committed, on principle, to preventing its adversaries from governing successfully.”
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