[Paleo Conservative]

Somewhere during the Carter presidency Americans lost confidence in the ideas of the Democratic Party.

I think it was earlier, more like the Johnson administration.

[Willie Green]

Somewhere during the Carter presidency Americans lost confidence in the ideas of the Democratic Party.

No, it was sometime after the Reagan presidency that the GOP adopted the ideas of the Johnson administration. That left the 'Rats with the radicals who disrupted the '68 convention, and the true conservatives are unrepresented.