Evolution Of A Movement

From a review by William Anthony Hay in The Wall Street Journal.

Has American conservatism run its course? To judge by the pronouncements of scolding liberal pundits -- not to mention of conservatives themselves -- it may even be at death's door. Long ago, the worker-philosopher Eric Hoffer remarked that "all great movements start as a cause, evolve into a business, and end up a racket." While conservatism has gained too much intellectual respectability to be dismissed as a racket, it certainly has its problems.

Cause, business, racket... I know where the AARP is. Sometimes I wonder about the NRA.