Party Politics: How Conservatism Lost Touch with Reality - TIME: Conservatives now espouse ideas drawn from abstract principles with little regard to the realities of America's present or past.
We need more market mechanisms to cut medical costs, but Republicans don't bother to study existing health care systems anywhere else in the world. They resemble the old Marxists, who refused to look around at actual experience. "I know it works in practice," the old saw goes, "but does it work in theory?"