Manzi: Conservatives Need to Reconnect With Reality

I don’t by any means agree with all of his policy prescriptions, some of which seem wrong and a some of which seem a bit half-baked (understandable in such a short piece), but Jim Manzi’s sketch of what’s ailing the contemporary right seems to be to contain an awful lot of good sense. And beyond sense, it contains a good attitude — a determination to identify policy challenges and then identify policies that will meet those challenge. A ridiculous amount of the past ten years worth of conservative “policy” “thought” has been dedicated to coming up with new rationalizations for why large regressive tax cuts are the solution to the problem du jour.