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out when the local library holds a fund-raiser; people who have a
stake in the community because
they are the community.
These people had held true to certain beliefs and principles that for 20
years the intelligentsia were
telling us were hopelessly out of date, utterly trite, and reactionary.
You want prayer in the schools?
How primitive, they said. You oppose abortion? How oppressive,
how antimodern. The normal
was portrayed as eccentric, and only the abnormal was worthy of
emulation. The irreverent was celebrated, but only irreverence about
certain things: irreverence toward, say, organized religion,
yes; irreverence toward established liberalism, not too much of that.
They celebrated their courage
in taking on safe targets and patted each other on the back for slinging
stones at a confused
Goliath, who was too demoralized and really too good to fight back.
But now one simply senses it.
The American people are no longer on the defensive. I believe the
conservative movement deserves
some credit for this. You spoke for the permanent against the merely
prevalent, and ultimately you
prevailed.
I believe we conservatives have captured the moment, captured the
imagination of the American
people. And what now? What are we to do with our success? Well,
right now, with conservative