Mona Charen

But anyway, but that is different.

And we're here to report that we lived through it.

And we would not have tolerated that kind of thing.

We left when this became the party.

So it obviously wasn't the party in 2000.

Not until this whole generation dies off.

And since I'm going to die off before they do, no.

No.

Because the Republican Party and the conservative movement have both been so deeply corrupted.

So no, I cannot imagine.

But I do hope that the Democratic Party, there is an argument that in the 1970s and 1980s,

when the neoconservatives, who had all been Democrats, some of them remained Democrats, but when they moved toward the Republican Party, they brought with them a way of thinking and ideas that were incredibly rejuvenating for conservatism.

And possibly the migration of some former conservatives into the Democratic Party can do the same thing.

That's maybe a little bit fanciful, but I hope so.

So I'll tell you one quick story if I can.

I was at a meeting with a bunch of people who span the spectrum but have leaned heavily to the left.

And we were talking about how elections are run in this country.

And before the advent of Trump, there were a lot of liberal reform bills and things that wanted to centralize the way we run elections in this country and limit the power of states to control it.

And so I remember chatting with this person who actually, anyway, and he said, you know, I said, the fact that the Constitution gives this power to the states looks pretty good right now, doesn't it?

And he said, yeah.