Michael Perkins > Status Update

I have to share with you a response to this David Brooks tweet:

I fell in love with conservatism as a young man. What the hell happened to it?

Ooh, I know this one! Your mythical Conservatism is a niche brand of elite narcissism incapable of winning national elections. So you used evangelicals/racists/gun nuts as electoral foot soldiers. But then--whoops!--they became self-aware and realized they don't need you.