The 1958 Elections: Coroner’s Report

The corpse is there for all to see, and no matter where you probe, you face the fact of lifelessness. A rebirth? Perhaps, says Mr. Bozell: but American Conservatives will have to organize.

Let us conservatives not look for the silver lining. There is none. The voters did not repudiate conservatism as philosophy and program; and neither did they endorse it. They proved, however, that the Republican Party, the traditional vehicle of conservative political action, is dead. Having presided for six years over an incumbent party’s paradise of peace and plenty, the Republican Party is dead.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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The corpse is there for all to see, and no matter where you probe, you face the fact of lifelessness. A rebirth? Perhaps, says Mr. Bozell: but American Conservatives will have to organize.

Let us conservatives not look for the silver lining. There is none. The voters did not repudiate conservatism as philosophy and program; and neither did they endorse it. They proved, however, that the Republican Party, the traditional vehicle of conservative political action, is dead. Having presided for six years over an incumbent party’s paradise of peace and plenty, the Republican Party is dead.