There is growing American hostility to Israel.

It all started with the universities, and from there, the younger generations, who are all bought into the groupthink imposed by their professors.

Major Islamic interests have flooded American universities with big money and are pressuring administrators, fundraisers, and professors to give a glowing appraisal of the Muslim world and Islam, while bashing Israel.

But there is a larger problem at work, one which exposes a long-standing failure of the conservative movement: winning the argument by predicting the opposition’s case and refuting it effectively. 

One can see the political and cultural fallout that ensued from the redefinition of marriage. President Bush declared during the 2004 debates that he did not know if people were “born gay” or not. John Kerry, going with the progressive leftist talking points, asserted that people are “born that way.”

The fact that conservatives showed no interest in pushing back on these lies allowed those lies to fester and proliferate.

Conservatives knew what they believed, and they stood by their views, but after the Cold War, when everything was nice and peaceful around the world, domestic problems, including cultural Marxism, continued to rear their ugly heads, and conservatives didn’t have the truth prepared with well-researched evidence.

“I just believe that marriage is between one man and one woman,” US Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain said to Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show in 2008. “But, I want to get married, too,” she retorted, painting McCain as backward and bigoted because he wouldn’t support a rash and destructive redefinition of marriage.

Conservatives needed to get back to basics about the fundamental norms and civilizing agency that marriage provides to our society. Yet conservatives didn’t do their research, and they........

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