Stephen Bainbridge: Why It's Embarrassing to Be a Conservative

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Yup. American conservatism is a disaster, and the GOP is now the stupid party. It didn't have to be this way, but the movement and the party let their worst tendencies take over--partially out of a lack of intellectual and moral self-control, partially as a result of their lamentable tendency to demonize those who disagree with them, partially out of a lust for power and the belief that feeding red meat to their masses would win.