Is American Conservatism a "hollowed-out ideological shell"?

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

wrong, Rubio or another neocon would have won like you would never have seen.

Republicans need to go back to 2004 if we're going to win anything.

Voters in the critical upper Midwest states have rejected hawks and neocons going back to McGovern.

You find no relation whatsoever between a Republicans who loudly rejects his party's foreign policy consensus, a Democrat who is her party's most hawkish nominee in more than a generation and the Democrat losing the critical states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, none of which had gone Republican in almost 30 years?

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

I, too, long for two unsustainable wars, one of which was launched under false pretenses, both adding trillions of dollars to the debt, eroding public confidence in institutions, resulting in thousands of deaths to soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and eroding confidence in American hegemony, while also adding trillions to the debt via tax cuts for the already well-to-do and prescription drug giveways, all the while eroding civil liberties.

W was great.