As an actual opposition party, yes. It's been that way (dead, I mean) for a couple of election cycles. Indeed, it was dead during all eight years of the Bush presidency.
So, what are conservatives gonna do?
Seems to me that political conservatism isn't so much dead as it's infantile. It's never coalesced into a political institution with sufficient discipline and coherence to make a case to the voters.
Here's the only hope for political conservatism that I can see now:
The scenario above doesn't have to be so dramatic and severe as I've sketched it to give conservatives some traction. Most importantly, such a scenario might forge a coherence among conservatives that allows them to be politically effective where heretofore they have never been able to pull that off.
If this doesn't work out that way, who knows what the next several generations are going to experience. I don't think anyone can forecast that.
That’s a possibility. However, to make it work we must ensure that the MSM does not survive.
If there is a Crash and a Depression, no one will ever know of it.
The Media will cover it up and the democrats will give out so much welfare that it will look like Morning in America once more.
If 8% unemployment for four years could be wiped out by the media coverage then a Depression would not even make Page 24 in the Gossip section.
Re your post 22, very interesting. The next few years should be interesting. I hope that our side can prevail, for once.