"How to Save the Republican Party"

[Lemur]

The Republican staffer who released the memo released something totally in line with Republican’s stated ideology. But his party bosses fired him for that. It would seriously impact political donations.

Well, looks like I'm not the only one thinking this could be a winner for Republicans:

The Republican economic program of the 1980s also fought against government-imposed restrictions on economic activity: decontrolling energy prices, for example. Today we should target different restrictions. Software patents have become a source of unproductive litigation that entrenches large tech companies and inhibits creativity. Republicans shouldn’t support those patents. Economic growth has to trump corporate executives’ campaign donations.

And there's a really telling bit, that I think everyone should heed, earlier in the essay: "In his first Inaugural Address, Reagan famously said that 'government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.' The less famous yet crucial beginning of that sentence was 'in our present crisis.' The question is whether conservatism revives by attending to today’s conditions, or becomes something withered and dead."