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The Democratic and Republican parties have completely switched sides in the past 50 years

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By Pat Cunningham

Writing in the June issue of Vanity Fair, Todd S. Purdom ARGUES that “over the past half-century, the two parties completely switched roles, with the G.O.P. turning into rebels and the Democrats defending the status quo.”

Conservatives are no longer, as William F. Buckley Jr. famously put it in the founding credo of National Review, simply standing “athwart history, yelling Stop.” They are, instead, eager to roll history back, and are prepared to destroy the national village in order to save it…

The radical element is now so firmly in control that the Republican Party of 2012 not only has ...

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