Victor Davis Hanson writes a prescription for the ailing Republicans. It’s an application to conservatism of Chesterton’s remark about Christianity: “[It] has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
The View from Alexandria
In advanced civilizations the period loosely called Alexandrian is usually associated with flexible morals, perfunctory religion, populist standards and cosmopolitan tastes, feminism, exotic cults, and the rapid turnover of high and low fads—in short, a falling away (which is all that decadence means) from the strictness of traditional rules, embodied in character and inforced from within. — Jacques Barzun
The View from Alexandria 