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"Surrender is not winning." —Charlie Sykes
The longest government shutdown in modern American history ended yesterday—but the constitutional damage lingers.
Democrats had political momentum from November 5's sweeping electoral victories, yet surrendered without securing healthcare subsidies for 22 million Americans.
Republicans face their own reckoning: Latino voters who broke for Trump last year are swinging decisively back toward Democrats.
And beneath both parties' failures lies a deeper moral crisis—antisemitism re-emerging at the institutional heart of conservatism itself.
For principled conservatives who believe in constitutional restraint, democratic norms, and moral clarity, this week exposes a political system in crisis.
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CLOSING THOUGHTS: This week's developments reveal a conservative movement at a crossroads.
Will it return to William F. Buckley's standards of moral rigor and constitutional principle—or continue surrendering to personality cult and conspiracy theories?
Democrats, meanwhile, must answer whether they can summon the sustained resistance authoritarianism demands, or whether they'll keep snatching defeat from victory's jaws.
The answer will determine not just the future of conservatism—but of American democracy itself.