As for liberalism accepting "government as a force of good" in our lives, perhaps this can be a fair assertion but has it worked out for them? Modern liberalism bears little resemblance to Renaissance humanism or its Enlightenment predecessors. If conservatism is dead (or at least the American/Republican conservatism he once knew) as Sullivan argues, then liberalism died long before it. In many ways, liberalism and conservatism in their extreme, popular form resemble each other. Under the conservative umbrella, people are rebelling against its direction.
In terms of what's happening within the conservative ranks, it very well may be a "civil war" between many competing groups - Palinites, the mixed bag known as the Tea Party, disaffected conservative Democrats, Independents, Limbaughians, Evangelicals, moderates, classical conservatives, RHINO's; am I missing someone? - but it seems to me conservatism is slowly forming an alliance with libertarians and classical liberals finding common ground on fiscal conservatism and limited state control. Of course extreme elements will be around but they tend to get weeded out over time.
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I love when I get emails about hypocrisy as if it remains the exclusive right to any one group; political or otherwise:
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