My fictitious child: "What's modern conservatism?" Me: "It's the fervent belief that when a minority of powerful people trick a near-majority of impassioned voters to act against their own interest while risking the health of the polity itself, it's A Good Republic."
I agree with all of this, mostly. And, I think very often "in their best interest" tends to be a way of having a charitable take instead of making the explicit moral censure...which is mostly just weird misdirection. But, people get tired of "WTF GFY!"https://twitter.com/microjudgments/status/1103275328695357441 …