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Axis of Evil: An Interview with David Frum

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The Conservative Mindset: How to Live in the World That Exists

The conservative mindset is always to live in the world that exists, not the one you think or you want to exist. The Americans did that with the Soviet Union after the Second World War. But we have to prepare for the reality in it and I think that clearly seems to be the thing that was missing. To be looked at my own country here, there was a sort of low level corruption of the British elite through Chinese money. That seems like a legitimate criticism. And to some extent, I wonder whether that sort of naivety gives the oxygen for people like Donald Trump,. who you're evidently opposed to, or you've been very critical of.

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