For sure, conservatives need to take “the long view.” Vaulting a rising star into the Presidency won’t do it. Too many of us are still engaged in thinking that one star vaulted into the top office will somehow bring sweeping and lasting changes.
Political and cultural change influence each other, but in the final analysis cultural change determines politics, not the other way around.
Conservatives have fought the cultural war on the political battlefield, which is in the long run irrelevant.
I don’t know how to begin retaking lose cultural ground, but it’s the only thing that really matters.