The conservative movement is in very bad shape. I recall hearing Charles Krauthammer say that this season of GOP presidential primary candidates was the strongest it’s been in a long while, maybe ever. They always came across to me as a collection of hapless also rans, vying for the coveted opportunity to win 190 electoral votes, give a magnanimous and forgettable concession speech, and then vanish.
Our side has to do much better.
Keep in mind that back in 1984 Charles Krauthammer was writing speeches for Walter Mondale in the attempt to deny Ronald Reagan a second term. Yet somehow that clown has managed to pass himself off as a conservative authority, due in large part to his fellow neocon phonies touting him.