SCHIEFFER: Let's talk about the other party, the Republicans. This is like after the '64 election,when Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater. People said this is the end of the Republican Party.Of course, it wasn't. Where does the Republican Party go from there?
Mr. BROOKS: World of pain. A generation of pain. Sixty-four, it was so much better than now. In '64, they have coherent belief system. They lost, they didn't persuade the American people about it, but they understood where they wanted to take the country. Now it's just a circular firing squad with everybody attacking each other and no coherent belief system, no leaders. You got half the party waiting for Sarah Palin to come rescue them. The other half waiting for Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, to come rescue them. But no set of beliefs, really a decayed conservative infrastructure. It's just a world of pain.
Brooks later adds:
And fundamentally, the conservative movement failed--and I've been in it my entire life--because it hasn't addressed the problems of today: the rise of China and Russia, the rise of inequality, energy, health care. It's great to worry about Reagan, I loved Reagan, but those days are over.
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