Well the title goes before the story. Anyway reading William Saffires latest vaguely philosophical noodling, and I'm not too impressed. His point is that parties, nations and peoples need to have character to succeed. The Republicans have a character, as defined by their goals. "The Republican Party today is characterized by a mission to defeat terror while exporting freedom abroad, and a policy to restrain taxes while increasing social spending at home." It's hard to know what to make of that second sentence. I assume by "restrain," Saffire means "drastically reduce," but financially, how do you increase spending while cutting revenue? Doesn't that seem like a self defeating strategy in the long run?
At any rate, he does seem to believe that the current character / unity of the Republican party isn't likely to last too much longer. "The G.O.P. personality will split in a couple of years, as all huge majorities do in America. Idealistic neocons will be challenged by plodding, pragmatic paleocons, who, by fuzzing the party's present character, will someday lead it down the road to defeat." Good point, but it ignores the conflict between those who favor a theocratic party and those who do not. But at any rate a split is probably on it's way.
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