The other day I had a piece on ConservativeHome, possibly the most popular politics blog in the UK, on what the election really showed about America. It was in response to what I thought was a series of misperceptions published in The Times. The bottom line is that conservatism, especially economic conservatism, is not dead, immigration isn’t going to kill it and that if you’re looking for evidence that Reaganism is gone, you won’t find it in this election.
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Some of the brightest minds in the online conservative movement — John Hawkins, Patrick Ruffini and Mark Tapscott — are discussing what it would take to build a “rightroots” movement, aimed at replicating the political activism of the left “netroots.” As Patrick makes clear in a further post, this is not about building a partisan shilling machine (if it was, the effort would deserve to fail), but about a grassroots-driven insurgency and about harnessing ideological lightning (of which lots more later) to…
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