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To: Lane3 who wrote (12591)	2/18/2006 9:33:00 AM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 541348

He seems to think that conservatism is ideologically monolithic and that's just not the case. I thought he did a credible job of defining "conservative movement" as a separate branch from the multiple conservative subgroups. If the author called this a "Republican Movement" rather than a conservative movement, I think his idea would work better. He does quote Digby as saying just that: "Along the same lines was Digby's take, in which he also identifies the conservative movement as an "authoritarian cult," but notes: So, it isn't precisely a cult of George W. Bush. It's a cult of Republican power." I tend to agree more with Neiwert than with Digby. I do believe that the conservative movement is its own subgroup, the most successful at taking over real power recently of all the conservatives. I think the more traditional Republicans have joined up with the conservative movement to share in the benefits of power, but are becoming more and more horrified at what they have helped create. At least I hope this is the case, since most of the real opposition to the Admin has come from dissenting Republicans and not from the scared bunnies in the Opposition Party.