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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; James Delingpole</title>
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		<title>A Refreshing Weekend of Real Conservatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Delingpole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The honor of attending the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk">spectator.co.uk</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Conservatism is dead in Britain — as it is in Europe, as it is in  most of the world — and if you want to know what the problem is, a good  place to start is the one where I’ve just been: the David Horowitz  Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>Horowitz is a prominent US activist, author and intellectual whose  Freedom Center, if you didn’t know better, you might assume was a  conservative think tank. But it’s not. As Horowitz reminded us on the  first night of our three-day palm-fringed extravaganza of cocktails,  fine cuisine, and sound conservatism courtesy of Mark Steyn, Ann  Coulter, Herman Cain, Allen West, Baroness Cox, Bernie Goldberg, Douglas  Murray and, ahem, James Delingpole, ‘We’re not a think tank. We’re a  battle tank.’</p>
<p>And Horowitz is right of course, as he has been since the early  Eighties, which is the moment he converted from cradle socialism (his  parents were communists — or ‘progressives’, as so many of their ilk  generously styled themselves) to Reagan conservatism. What Horowitz  understands, as far too many do not, is that western civilisation is  facing its greatest crisis since the second world war; that this trouble  has been brewing for decades; and that if we lose this war we lose  everything: our freedom; our livelihoods; our culture; our future; our  very existence.</p>
<p>Often former leftists make the best conservatives — think Paul Johnson  and Peter Hitchens — for they suffer fewer illusions about how devious,  dangerous and unprincipled the left can be. Schooled in Alinsky’s <em>Rules for Radicals</em> and the Leninist method, Horowitz knows all too well that the left will  lie, besmirch, cheat, character-assassinate, bully, threaten,  blackmail, ballot-box-stuff, bomb, kill, anything to get its way.  Conservatives are no match because ‘they’re too decent, too civilised,’  up against ‘destroyers, racists, bigots. I refuse to call them liberals —  we are the liberals. They are totalitarians.’</p>
<p>If this sounds extreme to some readers — and it will, even in <em>The</em> <em>Spectator</em>,  which says it all really — let’s consider briefly the state of the  world right now. The USA, bastion of the free world, is on the brink of  collapse. Its economy is $15 trillion in debt, brought low by  out-of-control Keynes­ian deficit spending, itself the response to a  crisis generated in part by a suicidal scheme to make mortgages  available to people who could never afford to pay them back, exacerbated  by the ever more burdensome encroachment of the state on the private  sector.</p>
<p>In the Middle East, the only stable, productive democracy in the region  is assailed on all sides by Islamofascist failed states hellbent on  destroying it. And instead of standing up for their only friend in this  strategically vital region, its former western allies nitpick over  settlements and borders, because that way they won’t have to feel so bad  when the Iranians nuke it off the map.</p>
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