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National Conservatism: New or Old?

These Times

CHAPTER

The Importance of Consensus in American Politics

I feel like I'm just witnessing a repeat. Disraeli had this answer to the question about conservation, which I think is interesting. The great question is whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and the traditions of a people. And he then says, we are the party of the national system and the others, the liberals and then in future the Labour Party and the philosophical party. In many ways American politics, they are very different because you have two parties based on a free society. We've won party based on that. For years now in British politics, this word consensus has reared its head. You must have a consensus

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