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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Modern Conservatism

David Roberts writes a nice summary of what modern "conservatism" is as regards the NYTimes Op-Ed page.

It is worth repeated that Cleek's Law is over a decade old and still applies: Republicans believe the opposite of what Democrats believe, updated every fifteen minutes. 

It's not an ideology.  It's a mood. 

It's resentment.

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