…and learning nothing–and his most zealous supporters continue to be discernment-free partisans of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism who think that wearing precious feet pins confers the sacrament of baptism on every crazy war-mongering thing he says.
The GOP has a choice in the coming years on foreign policy: it can become more like Santorum or it can become more like Hagel. If the party chooses the former, its political fortunes over the long term will be every bit as bright as Santorum’s.
Militarism, however, has become the sole core value of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism, just as abortion is the sole core value of the Thing that Used to be Liberalism. We are reliable slaves of the Culture of Death.