The fracture between Reagan and Bush isn’t a fracture of a movement. It is just a difference in a party, not a movement. No one called Bush a conservative. The point here is that conservatives can’t get on the same page.

I also don’t think that “Green Eye Shade” is the right descriptor for moderate Republicans, although it used to be. I think that Schwarzenegger and Gerson would both call themselves moderates, just along various different axes.

Perhaps a larger point is that there are no books for the conservative movement today. They read Ann Coulter and rant, not have any deeper philosophical grounding. I do wonder how different that is though.

Soren