Time to Win the War of Ideas--Finally

By Greg Anrig - May 2, 2008, 11:05AM

Since Paul Krugman's column today essentially makes the same argument as my Prospect Online article Wednesday, I'd like to echo back that all Democrats running for office -- not just the presidential candidates -- need to be assertively making the case that the conservative belief system and ideas have been an unqualified failure. The conservative movement's hostility toward government, and its agenda of ideas intended to weaken government, explains why Republicans in power have failed at governing.