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It’s time to learn what it’s like to be a minority | Joel Belz

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All right. Which way would you rather have lost—in a landslide or by a squeaker?

Many WORLD readers, I imagine, see a long winter ahead. The trouncing at the polls was thorough, painful, and unambiguous. It confirmed the claims of many analysts that the conservative coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan a generation ago has all but disappeared.

So if there is any sense of realism at all, the Nov. 4 drubbing should silence (at least for the next election cycle or two) conservatives' perpetual pipedream that we in fact represent a majority viewpoint among the American electorate. If only we could get the right candidates, conservatives have argued, and a little fairness from the mainstream media, and slow down the flood of illegal immigrants, the votes would certainly go our way.