Mr. Brooks, no matter what pretenses he offers to the contrary, obviously knows absolutely nothing about the Republican Party...
I would say the converse is true. Conservatives know little about the Republican Party and its adherents of the last three generations.
Mussolini was praised worldwide in his initial "third way" approach. Obama will be likewise. Representative republic governments of a complex nature have offices where the potentiality of the office is not used -- mostly by long held custom and moral. As Rome learned, once the potentiality is tapped, for reasons good or bad, the Republic ends but the empire that carries on retains its forms to keep the mob placated and asleep.