2. There's tendency to want to say that Trump isn't a "real conservative." Or ISIS isn't "real Islam" or abortion bombers not "real Xians"
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@HeerJeet dude, you are going 'Palin' on us.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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13 For Leo Strauss, the Athens of Socrates; for the Southern Agrarians, the Plantation (slave) South; for religious right, pre-secular world
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14. If Burke had Court of Marie Antoinette, what is Trump's Paradise Lost? I'd say mid-century America. John Wayne's America.
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@HeerJeet Like Hayek said, if conservatism is an ideology at all, it's a rearward-looking ideology.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Sure that one rhetorical flourish is totally the animating force behind Burke's political vision. -
@DouthatNYT@HeerJeet "One rhetorical flourish" that happens to be the longest section in the whole Reflections.
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@HeerJeet as a Whig and an Anglophile, Burke's Eden (if indeed he had one) was certainly in 1688 and on the northern side of the Channel.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet implicit in how did we up here calls?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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