what do you then make of the brands of conservatism, whether it s buckley, reagan, kemp where is that? what has happened to it? well, it s in eclipse. it s in exile, you might say. donald trump, to give him credit, was quite candid about this during the campaign. he said it s not called the conservative party. it s called the republican party. saying which was his way of saying the republican party, with conservatism defined in the goldwater reagan limited government style is no more. i think he s right. and jeb bush agreed with that. even the republicans who were defeated by his whirlwind upstart sort of out of nowhere kdsy felt that conservatism can be defeated as well. is it sleeping? has it left the country? there is an old country music song, mother s not dead, she s only sleeping. i think this is a long tradition, it goes back to