Outstanding article. I particularly enjoyed the inclusion and link to the history-correcting article by Neal Freeman to accurately define the “Buckley Rule” which is quite opposed to the GOPe ‘Rove rule’.
Reading the article, in full, is a tutorial.
There are at least a couple of things going on, here, it seems to me.
Number One, is the aim of conservatives to conserve the principles of the founders, and all that those principles encompassed at the time, and keep them into the future. ( The Constitution)
Number Two, is to support and elect representatives, and presidents, who concur with Number One.
Can these aims and principles even move the nation today, in significant numbers to actually prevail?
As the schools have triumphed over the Church, the churches have been been systematically diminished in their sustaining influence, and increasingly marginalized in the public square.
It is to be expected when you cede the field to incremental Marxist advances made in the schools, leaving now generations of children to come out “educated”, but entirely removed from the founding principles, having been shaped to reject serious church dogma, doctrines and community as well.
Panicked finally, we conservatives are beating against a tide turned against us that will take time to redirect, but must begin with taking back our schools, in order to reinvigorate and restore the Church. After all, where do children spend their lifetime? They are relegated to the school house, and school related activities that keep them out of their home and church.