The American Spectator’s founder, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., was a guest on the American Family Association’s “Today’s Issues” broadcast this morning to explain how the thesis of his recent book, “The Death of Liberalism,” was still valid despite the recent election results on the grounds that President Obama is not a liberal but rather a socialist.
In Tyrrell’s view, Obama’s win was just a demonstration of the fact that conservatism has big victories but then reaches a plateau before going on to even greater victories. So while the 2010 midterm elections were proof that America is a conservative nation, the 2012 election results were just a temporary plateau before the 2014 midterms, which will be another blowout win for conservatives.
But AFA’s Tim Wildmon had a simpler explanation of why President Obama was re-elected: because he is black.
