A top member of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign told Clinton's top supporters Thursday her defeat was "the most devastating loss in the history of American politics," while campaign chairman John Podesta said the defeat was due to a pro-Donald Trump bias in the media.
Conventional wisdom dictates that today I should be writing the conservative movement's obituary.
On November 7th, it was well-understood by the chattering classes that (1) the intellectual conservative movement was scattered and moribund; (2) the Republican party was on its death-bed; and (3) the Democratic party and its progressive allies were fulfilling their destiny and the preordained triumph of liberalism was a historical truism. But on November 8th, we were reminded that history is not composed of inexorable laws that obviate free will and human choice. Our history is what we make of it. On election day, Americans "stood athwart history yelling stop."
