Yesterday in the NYT, David Brooks wrote about the importance of conservative reformers in political history, citing Teddy Roosevelt and Benjamin Disrael: Both reframed the political debate so that it was not change versus the status quo, it was unfamiliar change versus cautious, patriotic change designed to preserve the traditional virtues of the nation. A skeptical Kevin Drum responds: Those are odd choices, aren’t they? A Victorian era prime minister and a guy who accidentally ...
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Yesterday in the NYT, David Brooks wrote about the importance of conservative reformers in political history, citing Teddy Roosevelt and Benjamin Disrael: Both reframed the political debate so that it was not change versus the status quo, it was unfamiliar change versus cautious, patriotic change designed to preserve the traditional virtues of the nation. A skeptical Kevin Drum responds: Those are odd choices, aren’t they? A Victorian era prime minister and a guy who accidentally ...Shared by Chris (69)
