"In a time requiring long views and self-denial, alliance with a faction founded upon doctrinaire selfishness would be absurd-and practically damaging."
Is the author really advocating collectivism as the answer to Conservative's lack of victory?
Everyone with a brain knows libertarian anarchy is the way to go.
No government? No problem!
Hu-yuck!
That's pathetic. One might expect such appalling ignorance from liberals, but not from supposedly stalwart conservatives.
Professing to admire conservatism and not knowing who Russell Kirk is, is like professing to admire objectivism and not knowing who Ayn Rand is.
As I noted upthread, there are two types of self-denial (voluntary self-denial in order to gain greater rewards later or to meet one's obligations, and involuntary self-denial imposed so that others can loot what rightfully belongs to you). Inasmuch as the former is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, the author can only be referring to, and implicitly praising, the latter.