Conservatives who have lived through the Liberal-directed deterioration of the Republican Party—signalized by the candidacies of Willkie, Dewey, Eisenhower and Nixon—face a serious dilemma. As conservatives, they respect the tradition of the American two-party system. Through most of our history it has served to mediate among groups and factions and to maintain the spirit of the Constitution. By presenting to the electorate broad choices, while modulating the irreconcilable passions of dogmatic ideology, it has enabled us to avoid the dangers of the multi-party structure of European politics, which magnifies those passions to a point where the possibility of effective constitutional government is foreclosed.
Meyer
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