Roland has some commentary on Bill Kristol‘s recent return to advocacy for “national greatness conservatism.” You have to love Matt Welch‘s assessment of this event in title: “Big-Government Conservative, After Helping Big-Government Conservatism Fail, Advocates Big-Government Conservatism.”
Roland is more sympathetic, but the political philosophy of the Bush administration is as dead as detente in the Republican Party. Apart from Kristol, no one in the party is looking longingly on the age of Nixon. Reaganism is in renaissance.