To progress beyond progress we will need to penetrate more deeply into the foundation of the Founding.
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[…] At the League, self-styled liberal-progressive Conor Williams and self-styled constitutional conservative Tim Kowal continue a debate over the “American-ness” of progressivism that, if only certain familiar cranks and leading politicians were not determined to advertise their apparently as invincible as influential misconceptions, I would consider somewhere between closed and ludicrous. This time, oddly enough, a friend and ally of Kowal’s with whom I’ve had several frustrating exchanges more than halfway backed up the counter-position. For once we were able to move to something like new ground in an attempt to articulate the American Idea more clearly – from my perspective for the sake of the effort to think beyond it. […]
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I think that this remark comes from you and not any self-described “conservative” is about the 2nd best illumination of the incoherence that is American “conservatism” I’ve seen online ever. The 1st would be this.