This does not take in to account the fact that there is a big difference between what goes on in the board room and what goes on in the bedroom. More cerebral activities such as business and governing (while certainly competative in their own way) require a communal effort in order to ultimately be successful over a long period of time. Activities such as dating and mating, which are dominated by the lower functioning aspects of the human brain, thrive in an authoritarian, hierarchical environment where the strongest, most aggressive males are able to attract the most desirable females.

Some conservatives ultimately fail to be leaders in a communal environment because they are not able to recognize this distinction. They may find success over a short period of time, riding their aggressive and authoritarian posturing to short term gains, but they soon find that the community bands against them and destroys them if their antics become too pronounced and too damaging to the society as a whole.

The author's discertation is correct, but incomplete. This is only a partial quote, so I'm not sure if they eventually delved deeper in to the subject in their essay, so I just wanted to create this addendum as clarification.

Evolution is rooted in the successful mutant. Thusly we are all the result of mutation.