David Brooks:

"American conservatives had one defeat, in 2006, but it wasn't a big one," he said. "The big defeat is probably coming, and then the thinking will happen. I have not yet seen the major think tanks reorient themselves, and I don't know if they can." He added, "You go to Capitol Hill — Republican senators know they're f***ed. They have that sense. But they don't know what to do. There's a hunger for new policy ideas."

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