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For a long time there was this sort of defined canon of American conservatism drawing primarily from agrarianism, Christianity, and an idealized post-war suburban household of a white couple with children, a woman staying at home and a man (probably an ex-soldier) working for a good wage. My argument is that the new right has been moving away from a coherent defense of tradition (as much as that tradition they defended was largely revisionism and stagecraft), defining itself increasingly by the caricatured social forces which it opposes. The fall of Dubya was probably the death nell for the last cartoonish vestiges of American conservatism proper. - that pharmer