The Conservative Movement: Growing Pains

I write this column directly upon my return from a speaking tour which took me in a week’s time through the East, the Midwest, the South, and the Southwest. Such a conspectus is somewhat dizzying (the mind has its difficulties adjusting to the abrupt transitions of the jet plane); but in this case two conclusions impressed themselves upon me with unmistakable force: first, the conservative movement in the United States is growing with startling rapidity; second, as it grows it is coming up against problems which threaten its health and continued development. It is, in brief, experiencing the phenomena of success; it is suffering from growing pains.

Meyer

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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I write this column directly upon my return from a speaking tour which took me in a week’s time through the East, the Midwest, the South, and the Southwest. Such a conspectus is somewhat dizzying (the mind has its difficulties adjusting to the abrupt transitions of the jet plane); but in this case two conclusions impressed themselves upon me with unmistakable force: first, the conservative movement in the United States is growing with startling rapidity; second, as it grows it is coming up against problems which threaten its health and continued development. It is, in brief, experiencing the phenomena of success; it is suffering from growing pains.

Meyer