Boo hoo. Every so often, history allows a movement to really assert itself. It either succeeds or it fails. I know I’m shedding no tears.
Exactly, Conservatism is nowhere near finished because our ideas are Mainstream America’s Ideas, what does happen is Clarity is lost and others shoe horn themselves into the picture.
Pablum such as “Big Government Conservatism” a DC creation by any metric, has suctioned itself to our movement, a few years of the coming Dhimmi Nirvana, coupled with our ideas being sharpened due to that, and we will re-emerge.
Finally, someone with SOME historical perspective. Neither liberalism nor conservatism “go away.” They ebb and flow, and it does appear to be tied to generational cycles, as Strauss and Howe say in their book, “Generations.”