2. My take on it is that the real debate should be broader: how loyal should conservative intellectuals be to GOP.
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3. We tend to think of conservatism & GOP as nearly synonymous but that's a fairly recent development, starting really with Reagan in 1980.
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4. But there's long been a lively conservatism in American that is free-floating & non-partisan: Kennan, John Lukacs, Hugh Kenner & the like.
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5. Maybe the upshot of Trump era is a conservatism severed from GOP, more about ideas than electoral politics. I pursue that thought here:https://newrepublic.com/article/146377/divorce-conservatism-republican-party …
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Frum, Rubin, Gerson, et al. are enjoying a new audience - of Ds - having blackened their reputations with Rs.
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It's a far smarter and less self-deceptive audience. Congrats!
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not a good start https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/943560149960192001 …
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It's a debate about trains running on time.
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