#Why Democrats must moderate, ‘Silent Majority’ want choice and other commentary

#Why Democrats must moderate, ‘Silent Majority’ want choice and other commentary

“Why Democrats must moderate, ‘Silent Majority’ want choice and other commentary” Liberal: Why Dems Must Moderate The Democratic Party desperately needs to embrace “moderation in the pursuit of votes,” argues the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira. The party just did pretty well thanks to “independents and Republican leaning or supporting crossover voters — not base voters mobilized by progressivism”…

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#Elon Musk has trumped Trump as America’s foremost culture warrior

#Elon Musk has trumped Trump as America’s foremost culture warrior

“Elon Musk has trumped Trump as America’s foremost culture warrior” Elon Musk, who has never called himself a conservative, is now the nation’s foremost culture warrior. That he’s achieved this status without espousing anything remotely like social conservatism illustrates how important a set of hothouse progressive pieties have become to the nation’s political debate.  We’ve…

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#What conservatives need to win the culture wars: creative visionaries

#What conservatives need to win the culture wars: creative visionaries

“What conservatives need to win the culture wars: creative visionaries” A famous passage in the preface to Lionel Trilling’s book “The Liberal Imagination” is widely quoted and just as widely misunderstood. Trilling, a Columbia University professor and literary critic, wrote that at the time — this was 1950 — there was no articulate conservative or reactionary thought…

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