In 1998, Balint Vazsonyi wrote America's Thirty Years War, one of the most insightful analyses in decades of the political landscape.  He wrote:  For the past thirty years, all aspects of our lives – and all of our institutions – have been moving in one direction: away from America's founding principles. In short, we were losing. Fast-forward nearly two decades.  Who's winning now?  Republicans control (more or less) both houses of Congress, the White House, and most governorships.  So which side has reason to be optimistic that things are moving in its direction? My assessment is that one major development represents a serious threat to the left but that two important trends will leave conservatives facing an increasingly difficult uphill battle. The most important issue by far is immigration.  If we continue to import about a million immigrants a year from third-world countries, conservatives are...(Read Full Post)