Dependency and the Threat to the GOP: Why We Need a Great Leader

◼ The only way to preserve the promise of opportunity in America, and protect the GOP’s political prospects, is to end a substantial part of the dependency state.... - Mario Loyola/National Review

The model here may not be Reagan, who was only facing a few years of stagflation. The model may be a leader such as Margaret Thatcher and Charles de Gaulle, each of whom was able to reverse a national decline that was already well under way, and which had come to seem irreversible.

If conservatives are to meet the challenge that the dependency state poses to their political prospects, the first step is to find a leader who can unite the country behind a mission of national renewal.