The culture war is suddenly all the rage again among the right-wing pundit class, and not for principled reasons but because the polls suggests that the moral issues are winning issues (to tell pollsters that you care about moral values, not economics, is a luxury of the prosperous). But recall 1992 and 1996. When the Dems held the White House, Republican punditry was decrying these Buchananite themes as an albatross that had to be tossed off. Why embrace the culture war one year after having dismissed it in previous years? Power might have something to do with it. In any … Continue reading Anything for Power