The magazine is hyping Ted Cruz’s comments about Texas possibly giving its electoral votes to Democrats because of the donkeys’ edge with Latino voters, and to his credit Ryan Lizza makes clear that the party shift from Southern Democrats to Southern Republicans was because Democrats stopped being conservative, but the core question for today’s GOP still hasn’t been answered: Is the Party’s problem conservative ideas or conservative positions? Those aren’t the same thing, and they’ll have to confront it soon enough.
Worth noting: 1) Texas is very different from, say, Kansas, and it’s hard to point to the state as a model for building coalitions elsewhere. 2) Conservatism never fails; it can only be failed. 3) Social conservatism in North America is on a 250-year losing streak.
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