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The Aaron Renn Show

You Can't Beat Something With Nothing

Jan 24, 2022
17:38

Conservatives haven't tended to oppose things.  As William F. Buckley famously put it, to "stand athwart history yelling Stop!" But purely oppositional or defensive approached tend to get steamrolled in the long term.  You can't be something with nothing. You can't be someone else's proposal, even a bad proposal, to fix a real problem with no proposal. This is seen most notably in the Republican Party's approach to health care. What is the Republican health care plan? There isn't one and never has been.

If you are someone who does not like ideas that other people are pushing, an important question to ask yourself is: what's my alternative?

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