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David Frum yesterday posted "The Republican Waterloo." It's a nice accompaniment to coffee for 15 minutes of a Saturday morning. It's not derisive and it's not laudatory.. It was inspired by a 2009 essay he wrote, and that was inspired by a remark Jim Demint made. The latest essay concludes as follows:
I take no pride or pleasure in saying “I told you so.” We’ve all been wrong about enough things to teach us humility about our rare bursts of foresight. What I would urge is that those conservatives and Republicans who were wrong about the evolution of this debate please consider why they were wrong: Consider the destructive effect of ideological conformity, of ignorance of the experience of comparable countries, and of a conservative political culture that incentivizes intransigence, radicalism, and anger over prudence, moderation, and compassion.