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From David Frum, a conservative Republican:
David Frum: How the GOP Got Stuck in the Past - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
I love that one about the Fox Nation, so damn true,
David Frum: How the GOP Got Stuck in the Past - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
The ratification of the Obama agenda will understandably enrage and depress conservatives. Yet if there is any lesson conservatives ought to have learned from the past four years, it is the danger of succumbing to angry emotion. Weve had four years of self-defeating rage. Now its time for cool.
Those who would urge the GOP to double down on ideology post-2012 should ask themselves: would Republicans have done better if we had promised a bigger tax cut for the rich and proposed to push more people off food stamps and Medi*caid? Would we have done better if we had promised to do more to ban abortion and stop same-sex marriage? If we had committed ourselves to fight more wars? To put the country on the gold standard? Almost half of those surveyed on voting day said they wanted to see taxes raised on Americans earning more than $250,000. Exit polls do tend to oversample Democrats, but the tax result is consistent with other polling that has found that even Republicans would prefer to raise taxes on the rich than see cuts in Medicare.
Some combative conservatives may wish that Mitt Romney had talked more about the various plots and conspiracies they believed Obama to have launched upon the land: Fast & Furious, ACORN, Pigford, U.N. bike lanes, Obamas imagined plan to abolish the suburbs. But while this kind of angry talk may gain eyeballs on Hannity, its not the stuff that swings undecided voters in Colorado and *Virginia*especially not the women voters who formed 53 percent of the electorate on Tuesday; or the moderates, men and women, who formed 41 percent of it; or the nonreligiously observant, who formed three quarters of it. Only 34 percent of the vote Tuesday was made up of white men. The share of the vote that was made up of older, conservative white men must have been much smaller still. Fox Nation never was more than a very tiny slice of the American nation, and it was only sad self-delusion that ever led anyone to think otherwise.
And deep down, we all know it.
Yet if we know that extremism is dangerous, why do we see so much of it?
I love that one about the Fox Nation, so damn true,