The Clinton administration, for all that it has been dominated by liberals, has pursued economic policies that have probably not differed much from what Republicans would have delivered. Free market forces are now much stronger than they were thirty years ago. We now have not just an invisible hand but an invisible whistle, which emits a loud warning signal when politicians in Washington threaten anything foolish like raising taxes or cranking up another entitlement program. Now, perhaps, we have a whistle that competes with the squeaks. We may be entering a period when it will be difficult either to cut spending or to increase it, a time when government is padlocked in place, difficult to shrink or enlarge.
Individuals have to make their own choices and the government can t interfere.
The word for this direction, of course, is libertarian. There may be such a trend. One sign of this would be further moves to decriminalize drug use something that may well be overdue anyway. I know my libertarian friends will remind me of the many areas in which we do not by any means live in an Age of Consent. Movement toward a more libertarian society would hardly indicate a conservative revolution.