The death of conservatism: boomer-cons embrace leviathan

"[D]espite six years of every branch of government being controlled by the putatively free-market GOP -- all is not well within libertarian land. The state, even under George W. Bush and a Republican Congress, grows ever larger, the entitlement programs ever stronger. And so, in May 2006, Cato Unbound, the think tank’s vibrant online journal, solicited essays asking whether 'the GOP and limited government have a future together.' The lead respondent, conservative intellectual and former Bush speechwriter David Frum, delivered an answer unnerving to the anxious free-market apostles: No." "The Rise of the Republicrats" American Prospect