They urged patience, caution and conformity the whole way during this last quarter century. They bit by bit allowed ‘neocon’ to displace conservative. While we frogs were being boiled, they are the ones who told us to hang on, it would just be a little longer.
Frequently, Levin goes into a tirade that 'we need a new Republican party.'
He never explains how to make it come about or what it will be like. If history is any indication, such major change is not going to come from within. It didn't with Goldwater. It didn't with Reagan. It didn't when the Republicans held both chambers and the WH in the mid-2000s. It hasn't while the Republicans regained the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.
He decries any mention of a 3rd party conservative/tea party effort. Several times he has claimed he is within a inch of dropping the [existing] Republican party.
It all makes for good soundbites on a shock-jock type radio program. But we still have the same old establishment-run Republican party. Nominee McCain didn't change it. Nominee Romney did some internal changes, but they were for his benefit as counters to the conservatives.