The momentum has been steadily leftwards for the last 100 years or so, and I tend to be pessimistic, but it's true that there are signs that you are right. I hope that you are. I do think that people are really starting to get fed up with having our universities act as centers for socialism and political correctness. Agreed that the Churchill thing is probably opening sleeper's eyes.
I am personally an admirer of Bush, and voted for him. I do think, though, that on a fundamental level, his viewpoint bears some similarity to that of the Dems. In that he seems to believe that it is the job of government to order society. Even if his ideas on how to order it differ from the ideas of the Left.
Yeah, one does not think of Long Island as exactly a haven for conservatism.