Impeachment and War Redirected the Conservative Revolution
February 8th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
Conservatism is a stool with three legs
Pajamas Media
by Andrew Walden
For almost two decades, first President Ronald Reagan and then the congressional “Class of 1994” slashed at the socialist bureaucracy of the New Deal and Great Society. Taxes were cut and welfare was reformed. The culture of malaise was turned back by “Morning in America.”
But thirteen years after the “Contract with America,” many ask where have all the leaders gone?
They didn’t disappear magically. It was a gradual process. Some were removed physically by the Clinton impeachment trial. Others were sidetracked psychologically by the war.
