True, and we no longer have an alternate cadre of credible, pedigreed intellectuals who can espouse and explain the conservative message, like we did in decades past. The big names of the 20th century - Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, WFB, William Safire, Robert Novak, etc. - have all died or left the scene, and have not been replaced by anyone of that caliber.
“True, and we no longer have an alternate cadre of credible, pedigreed intellectuals who can espouse and explain the conservative message, like we did in decades past. The big names of the 20th century - Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, WFB, William Safire, Robert Novak, etc. - have all died or left the scene, and have not been replaced by anyone of that caliber.”
Agreed. Somewhere along the way, we traded conservative intellectuals in for conservative “shock jocks”.
We might have been better off sticking to policy foregoing “Owning the libs”.