Moderate Republicans, Reformist Conservatives, and Other Animals - Ross Douthat
One alternative path forward - and only one, out of many - is a reformist conservatism that tries to craft a new right-of-center domestic-policy agenda, one better attuned than the current Republican agenda to the set of challenges facing middle and working-class America. This sort of reformism is associated with a group of writers that would include people like Ramesh Ponnuru, David Frum, Yuval Levin, David Brooks, Reihan and myself -
In other words, craft a “right-of-center domestic policy agenda” that has about as much to do with actual conservatism as Barack Obama’s philosophy does.
Conservatives are right to fear you, McCain, and all your ilk. You have no use for us. Why should we have any use for you?
I do have to admire your sheer chutzpah for advancing an argument which boils down to: “Well, if you picky conservatives won’t open your movement to non-conservatives, why, then, you aren’t really conservatives.”
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How do you pronounce that last name anyway? Do That?
The major hazard of having a “big tent” is that the first time a flashier circus comes along, all the clowns pile into that little car and bail on you.
It’s pronounced:
Dow that
Any relationship would be rather remote at best. And politically remote also: I’m a paleocon.