The End of Conservatism?

Over at the Post, E.J. Dionne poses the unspeakable question: Is conservatism finished? As nice as that idea sounds, it's not really plausible. To start with, Dionne seems to still be clinging to that old canard about modern conservatism being rooted, ultimately, in the thought of Edmund Burke. He does follow up this demostrably false thesis with some thoughts on modern conservatism's roots in the Goldwater race and Cold War America, but he seems to still be blind to the right's slow but steady drift toward fascism, an issue taken up ably by Dave Niewert at Orcinus, a cite full of useful thoughts.