Interesting take by Jonah Goldberg. I admit this tendency to muck things up just for the challenge of having to clean up the mess.
Forget conservative and liberal for a moment. Think order and disorder. Disorderly times are good for orderly parties. Orderly times are good for disorderly parties, largely because mankind can always be counted on to cure its boredom by mucking things up.
It might be worth pondering that a Republican party that succeeds on fighting terrorism and cultural rot may be a sign of the GOP's health and simultaneously a sign of the society's problems. Surely, America would be better off if the GOP didn't have terrorism as an issue to take advantage of. Why? Because terrorism is really, really bad. Similarly, America would be better off if parents didn't need to buy V-chips and home-school their kids. In other words, enough celebrating the GOP's success and more worrying about why it's successful.
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