Downstream with Chris Buskirk | Politics | Movies | Sports | Music

All of the handwringing about Donald Trump's candidacy masks something else - the conservative movement identified with William F Buckley, Jr, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan has lost it's way.  The movement that was so vibrant during the Cold War era - that won the Cold War - today lacks the intellectual heft that once led it to political victories that reestablished the Republican Party as the party of free government and individual liberty.  We get into how it happened, why, and start to talk about what to do about it.