{"id":2817,"date":"2008-05-12T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/the-next-conservatism\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:42:46","slug":"the-next-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/the-next-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/PaulWeyrich\/2008\/05\/12\/the_next_conservatism\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall.com<\/a> | Paul Weyrich | May. 12, 2008<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if conservatism can regain the initiative which was lost in the past few years. When there is a vacuum liberals always are prepared to rush in. When President Reagan took office the majority of Americans believed that government was the problem. Today, I am sorry to report, the majority of Americans are convinced that government is the solution. It isn&#8217;t, of course, but by time the public again is convinced that government is the problem it may well be too late. Conservatives gave up some of their principles in order to retain power. The public has lost confidence in the conservative movement. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>As one who has devoted most of his adult life to the conservative cause, it saddens me to recognize this. Yet we can&#8217;t begin to recover unless we acknowledge the problem. We hope when our book comes out you will help to start a debate over some of the ideas we advance. <\/p>\n<p>Only by that means will we be able to begin to recover. It remains to be seen if conservatives again can seize the moral high ground and frame the issues so that conservatives will have the initiative in my lifetime. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/PaulWeyrich\/2008\/05\/12\/the_next_conservatism\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com | Paul Weyrich | May. 12, 2008 It remains to be seen if conservatism can regain the initiative which was lost in the past few years. When there is a vacuum liberals always are prepared to rush in. When President Reagan took office the majority of Americans believed that government was the problem. Today, &#8230; <a title=\"The Next Conservatism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/the-next-conservatism\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Next Conservatism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}