Kate, as usual nails it.

I’d add a couple points. My biggest problem with Dionne’s argument is that it’s ill-advised punditry. Obviously conservatism isn’t over. So what’s he gonna do next year? Proclaim nobody can talk about something that no longer exists?

Second, I wonder, would EJ consider a similar argument about liberalism/Democrats anything but a non-starter? I mean he writes books with titles like “They Only Look Dead” and “Stand and Fight” all geared toward coping with far graver indictments of progressivism than last week’s minimum wage shennanigans. It seems to me this is wishful thinking gussied-up as definitive analysis.