Is the Republican Party Dead?

No!

Mrs. Luce thinks the decline of the Republican Party is permanent. She attributes it not to correctible errors, but to the abandonment by Americans of the principles the party stood for, such as “political and economic freedom” and “limited government.” It is not because voters do not know what the Republican Party stands for that they do not vote for it, but because they do. Voters are egalitarians and each hopes to live off the other. The Republican Party is doomed because the Republic and Republican principles are. I think that Mrs. Luce’s pessimism is unrealistic—Deo gratias.

No!

Mrs. Luce thinks the decline of the Republican Party is permanent. She attributes it not to correctible errors, but to the abandonment by Americans of the principles the party stood for, such as “political and economic freedom” and “limited government.” It is not because voters do not know what the Republican Party stands for that they do not vote for it, but because they do. Voters are egalitarians and each hopes to live off the other. The Republican Party is doomed because the Republic and Republican principles are. I think that Mrs. Luce’s pessimism is unrealistic—Deo gratias.