we began in the 1950s as a tiny band of businessmen and intellectuals alarmed by the growth of government -- an early Tea Party movement, if you will. But through the ensuing years, led by such scholars as Milton Friedman, we developed arguments about government being a threat to our personal freedoms. Moreover, government could do only do two things well: inflate the currency and wage war. The rest is best left to private entrepreneurs. Now the Liberals boast of their diversity. They include feminists, gays, Latinos, Blacks, the underclass, Hollywood, California, and so forth. But this is merely playing Masked Politics. Behind the Mask, they have been Democrats all along. And a feminist or a career civil rights advocate does not, contrary to their boasts, speak for all women or all blacks or all Latinos. In the meantime since the 1950s conservatives have practiced inclusion and steadily expanded, creating the most diverse political movement in the country. We took in ever more groups of voters alarmed by Big Government and by feckless Liberalism. In the 1970s there were the wayward Liberals who became alarmed by Liberalism's extravagant domestic policy and lack of resolve toward Communism. Our longtime Board member Jeane Kirkpatrick was one of them. They were called Neocons, and we welcomed them into the Big Tent. In the 1980s there were People of Faith who became concerned as Liberals threatened prayer in public places, pornography at the corner drug store, and legalized abortion. They were called the Christian