It's amazing that over the span of two decades, America went from this...

[Prophet 451]

114. Yes, they will.

Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed. The possibility of failure is simply not a part of their system of thought. Since the failure of conservatism is, by definition, impossible, it can only be failed by those insufficiently zealous or not pure enough or too pragmatic. So the conservative centre of gravity pushes ever further to the right. And the Democrats, in their constant and pointless attempts to appear moderate, follow them to the right. To a lesser degree, sure, but to the right all the same.

And let's be honest, the conservative's have won, for the time being at least. They've got themselves a minority veto in Congress (which they'll do away with the very second they're in the majority), a compliant media to frame everything in their terms and an obedient SCOTUS majority to rule "unconstitutional" any law they don't like. They've won, for the time being. All you can do is try and limit the damage. Until the demographics shift completely kills the GOP in about fifteen years anyway.