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===Decline=== The phrase and the idea of compassionate conservativism declined after the Bush administration left office. In December 2011, Christian commentator [[Jim Wallis]] of [[Sojourners]], citing harsh rhetoric toward the poor and immigrants from [[Republican Party presidential candidates, 2012|candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination]], wrote that "the compassionate conservative agenda has virtually disappeared from the Republican Party."<ref>Jim Wallis, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/the-disappearance-of-the_b_1137208.html The Disappearance of the Compassionate Conservatives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131092532/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/the-disappearance-of-the_b_1137208.html |date=2012-01-31 }}, ''Huffington Post'' (December 8, 2011).</ref> In January 2012, commentator [[Amy Sullivan]] wrote that "Just three years after George W. Bush left the White House, compassionate conservatives are an endangered species. In the new [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] era, they've all but disappeared from Congress, and their philosophy is reviled within the GOP as big-government conservatism."<ref name="Sullivan2012">Amy Sullivan, [http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-29/compassionate-conservatism-bush-santorum-republican/52873150/1 Column: Is compassionate conservatism dead?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322045449/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-29/compassionate-conservatism-bush-santorum-republican/52873150/1 |date=2016-03-22 }}, ''USA Today'' (January 29, 2012).</ref> Sullivan noted that Republican presidential candidates "have jostled to take the hardest line in opposing government-funded programs to help the poor."<ref name="Sullivan2012"/> ''The Washington Post'' columnist [[Eugene Robinson (journalist)|Eugene Robinson]] made similar observations.<ref>Eugene Robinson, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-compassionate-conservatives/2011/09/15/gIQA83EfVK_story.html Where are the compassionate conservatives?], ''The Washington Post'' (September 15, 2011).</ref>
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