[aruanan]

Indeed. Russell Kirk made the same argument in A Program For Conservatives (Chicago: Regnery, 1954).

Didn't he write the book, The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot? Okay, I just checked. Yes, he did. And a good book it was. I believe it was in there he quoted Burke as saying something to the effect that there are a few truly evil people and a few truly good ones and the majority of people swing back and forth between them depending on whose in power. I've got to see if I can find the exact quote.

[Fiji Hill]

The Conservative Mind was published by Regnery in 1953. I don't recall the Burke quote, but it can probably be found in Chapter II.