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sway and then the right, and here comes the left again. The truth is,
conservative thought is no
longer over here on the right; it's the mainstream now. And the tide of
history is moving
irresistibly in our direction. Why? Because the other side is virtually
bankrupt of ideas. It has
nothing more to say, nothing to add to the debate. It has spent its
intellectual capital, such as it
was, and it has done its deeds. Now, we're not in power because they
failed to gain electoral
support over the past 50 years. They did win support. And the result
was chaos, weakness, and
drift. Ultimately, though, their failures yielded one great thing -- us
guys. We in this room are not
simply profiting from their bankruptcy; we are where we are because
we're winning the contest of
ideas. In fact, in the past decade, all of a sudden, quietly,
mysteriously, the Republican Party has
become the party of ideas.
We became the party of the most brilliant and dynamic young minds.
I remember them, just a few
years ago, running around scrawling Laffer curves on table napkins,
going to symposia and talking
about how social programs did not eradicate poverty, but entrenched
it; writing studies on why the
latest weird and unnatural idea from the social engineers is weird and
unnatural. You were there.