Is the conservative movement collapsing?

[Torie]

Autopsying the "conservative movement" is not really worth my time. I have enough to do thinking about how to approach the real public policy choices out there. And I don't give a damn what label somebody wants to put on it. The movement has a problem because most voters, and rightly so, understand that there needs to be a social safety net. So, given that, where are we? Where are they? One aspect of traditional conservatism, the doctrine of subsidiarity, that the government that is closest to the people, is the best, states' rights, and all of that, I decided was intellectually bankrupt and of no use in governance, back in college, which was a few years ago.