I\u2019ve been recommending\u00a0postmodern conservatism over the last year & I’ve been happy to see former\u2013& future?\u2013Ricochet & Postmodern Conservative member James Poulos warmly recommended on Ricochet by\u00a0Prof. Rahe\u2019s. I’d like to share with folks who are likelier to agree his argument\u00a0that in the new America, there\u2019s no place for the Sunshine Senator. Prof. Rahe only showed\u00a0the pretty stuff, so allow me the pleasure of introducing to you the\u00a0ugly attacks that led to this new Cruz v. Trump world. This is a column from about a week or a ten-day before the Florida primary & it’s really good on showing what wrong with the view of the GOP that Sen. Rubio championed. His focus on the future–new American century!–really failed on all levels to deal with the failures of the recent past…<\/p>\n
So this is where Mr. Poulos now writes, The<\/em> Week<\/em><\/a>. His latest column: Marco Rubio is a horrible failure!<\/a>\u00a0This is his upbeat, off-the-beaten-track, trying-to-see-the-big-picture thinking on Super Tuesday. March is the cruelest month this year, because it made the\u00a0previously unbeatable-seeming\u00a0Mr. Trump seem very beatable\u2013but only by Sen. Cruz. All the \u2018It\u2019s me & the Apocalypse\u2019 talk seems an accurate description of events that can in no way be blamed upon Texas! But we\u2019re human, so we gotta blame someone. You know who can be blamed? Mr. Poulos thinks it\u2019s the Sunshine Senator: He\u2019s the darling of the party\u2013future of America, even speaks Spanish, unlike Sen. Cruz!\u2013& media\u2013he wins every time he doesn\u2019t win\u2013he\u2019s promising to the party that no great change is necessary & proving it publicly by embracing the Bush legacy. Where\u2019s the electorate on all these matters?<\/p>\n The party basically promises that it\u2019s got\u00a0the election in the bag\u2013all parties have to do that\u2013if only you trust it. Just one more time. The electorate has proved it does not trust anyone publicly connected to the establishment or public face of the party. No one called Bush, no one called Romney, a thousand times no one called Dole. I\u2019m not going to say bad things about these people, but whoever has tried to use whatever reputation they think they have acquired with Americans or the GOP electorate or the primary electorate\u2013all honors have turned to ashes in the mouth of America. The worse the things you say about the party, the more primaries you\u2019ll win, it seems. Mr. Poulos argues that all this is very much deserved.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been recommending\u00a0postmodern conservatism over the last year & I’ve been happy to see former\u2013& future?\u2013Ricochet & Postmodern Conservative member James Poulos warmly recommended on Ricochet by\u00a0Prof. Rahe\u2019s. I’d like to share with folks who are likelier to agree his argument\u00a0that in the new America, there\u2019s no place for the Sunshine Senator. Prof. Rahe only showed\u00a0the pretty stuff, so allow me the pleasure of introducing to you the\u00a0ugly attacks that led to this new Cruz v. Trump world. This is a column from about a week or a ten-day before the Florida primary & it’s really good on showing what wrong with the view of the GOP that Sen. Rubio championed. His focus on the future–new American century!–really failed on all levels to deal with the failures of … Continue reading