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As an American and a conservative, what I see is the left’s political base for at least a 100 years.

[mas cerveza por favor]

Do you consider Joe McCarthy and his most ardent followers to have been the left? How about the Dixiecrats of the Old South politically allied with the hard-nosed Northern ethnics?

Some of the biggest conservative disappointments have come from traditional Protestant institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and the blue-blood establishment. Old-line Protestant denominations have dried up and blown away. I admit that Catholics have a mixed record but there is enough blame to go around for all.