The Bumpy Road From Reagan-Thatcher To Johnson-Trump
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The Breakdown of the Conservative Movement
In the 1980s, under Reagan and Thatcher, conservatism stood for a series of things such as small government. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem: it's the problem. The old conservatism has been replaced by a new and much more unstable sort of conservatism. There's all to do with the nation-state, national conservatism, tapping into cultural resentments.
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