"I feel like the biggest success of movement conservatism
since Nixon/Reagan wasn't the rise of the right, it was killing
the left. Nowadays, even among people who are furious at Wall
Street, Republicans and the rest of the system, there are plenty
who are equally disillusioned with or suspicious of the federal
government, organized labor, et al - people who don't buy the idea
of 'trickle down' or 'conservatism will make us all rich,' but
also don't think there's much the government or unions can do
about it, and they'll probably just make it worse if they try.
There's Movement Conservatism By True Faith, and then there's
Movement Conservatism By Resignation." -- commenter Chris at
Balloon Juice,
2014-10-17 (thanks to
realinterrobang for
quoting this earlier)