An Interview With David Frum About His New Book, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again By John Hawkins

What do you say to the idea that the problems the GOP is having right now are largely cyclical. You know, the GOP was in power for a while and conservatives became complacent, Republicans politicians have made a lot of dumb decisions, and voters were just ready for something new as opposed to the Republican platform needing a major overhaul?

I think there is much truth to that, to the claim that the problems are cyclical, but cycles don't revolve by themselves. The reason we have cycles in politics is precisely because a party loses power and then it reinvents itself. But, if the party doesn't reinvent itself, the cycle can take a very long time. Look at what happened to the Democrats between about 1970 and 1995. They took a quarter century to reinvent themselves. They were the weaker party for all of that time.

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