Where did the Republicans go?

15Mar07

I definitely don’t agree with everything in this article, but the gist of it, that the Republican part of Regan is not the Republican part of today, definitely rings true to me.

How The Right Went Wrong — TIME

But everything that Reagan said in 1985 about “the other side” could easily apply to the conservatives of 2007. They are handcuffed to a political party that looks unsettlingly like the Democrats did in the 1980s, one that is more a collection of interest groups than ideas, recognizable more by its campaign tactics than its philosophy. The principles that propelled the movement have either run their course, or run aground, or been abandoned by Reagan’s legatees.