Knowing Hope

Douthat prays:

My great hope is that the Right will learn a lesson from the current liberal agony, and figure out its own way, if and when conservatives return to power, to “create some big things out smaller, salable pieces.” My great fear is that Republicans will continue to oscillate, as they are at the moment, between ideas that are simply too small-bore to matter all that much and grand visions that are too sweeping to be implemented.