What Reagan Taught Us About Being Conservatives By Martin A. Knight - Redstate

"During the 1960s and 70s, the conservative movement in America was all but pronounced dead. Democrats had advanced an aggressive left-wing agenda under Johnson (such as the War on Poverty and the Great Society) that indebted the country, both figuratively and literally, to liberal policies. Heading into the 1980s, Republicans had not had control of the Senate or the House since 1954, sometimes facing deficits of 23 seats or more in the Senate alone. Nixon had tarnished the Republican and the conservative name with the Watergate scandal. Americans identified themselves as Democrats more than Republicans by a 25% margin in many polls. The media and many Americans began asking if Republicans would ever be in power again. Conservatives, they said, had gone the way of the whigs.
But in the midst of certain permanent defeat, conservatives were handed two beautiful gifts. The first was the disastrous presidency of a peanut farmer from Georgia. But even one of the worst Presidents in modern history couldn't have turned the tide of five decades of history that seemed bent against conservatives. For that, we needed our second gift: an actor-turned politician from California."

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