Remember when the USSR started to crumble? Whenever one of the member countries failed and its government was overthrown, it seemed there was always somebody in some other country who would stand up and accuse those former leaders of being less than faithful to the true ideals of Communism. These folks needed desparately to believe that the system itself was a good one, and all they had to do was to find somebody who would be a lot better at applying the principles - somebody who could execute the plan better.
Sometimes, it's the plan that sucks, not the people who are trying to make the plan work.
I can see the same kind of thing happening now inside the 'Conservative Movement'. Obviously, there's going to be a fight to see who gets to call the shots, but still, I think a narrative is starting to emerge: "We had the right idea, but Jr Bush fucked it up".
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