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    A DEFENSE OF ZOMBIE CONSERVATISM

    Dec 18, 2020 4 minutes
    by Charles C.W. Cooke

    INSOFAR AS IT REPRESENTS ANYTHING more than a post hoc rationalization for President Donald Trump’s caprice, the postmortem for the pre-2015 Republican Party reads as follows. By the 1980s, a set of serious problems had arrived in the United States. Thankfully, President Ronald Reagan and his fellow travelers had good answers to these problems and, by and large, they managed to solve them. But, having done so, the Republican Party and its friends within the institutionalized conservative movement failed to move on. Instead, they decided that the platform of 1980 was applicable to all places and all times.

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