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Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics

The Good Fight

CHAPTER

Conservatism Is Not Constitutional, Is It?

The real animosity to arban comes precisely because he's standing up for those values, rather than undermining democratic institutions. This is a conservatism which, in my view, is at the edge of the constitutional order. And we forget another conserv ism, which i'm an old liberal, but you know, the world was built after 19 forty five much more by conservatives than by liberals. You think of de gaspery in italy, and adenhauer, you think of churchill socialists. They believed in a constitutional order, and they built the world that we live in.

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