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Senior editor, National Review; music critic, The New Criterion

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    1. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

      Today, contemplating what to me is a dispiriting political scene in America, I've been thinking of Dinesh D'Souza. He said something brilliantly insightful in conversation with me several years ago. I will paraphrase it.

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      Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

      In a contest between freedom and fairness, fairness will win every time. Fairness will kick the bejesus out of freedom. (Some of us think freedom IS fair, but that's another story.)

      6:05 PM - 5 Aug 2020
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        2. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          In the old days, subjects said of their king, "Is he a good king?" In other words, is he a fair and just king? Few thought of freedom, autonomy, rights -- the pursuit of one's own destiny, come hell or high water.

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        3. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          What does a child say, almost as soon as he can talk? "That's not fair!" It is apparently elemental.

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        4. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          Freedom is a scary thought to people. Ain't nobody want freedom, really, except for a few kooks. "Live Free or Die" is just license-plate pap. No one means it. What people want is protection. What they want is what they regard as fairness.

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        5. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          The Democrats have long understood this. Trump and his Republican Party understand it. You almost never hear Trump talk about freedom, do you? "Freedom" used to issue from every Republican mouth. No more. Populism doesn't do freedom, really: It does fairness.

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        6. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          In America today, you can have pink-hued populism or brown-hued populism. The constituency for freedom -- for the ideals of the American Founding -- is essentially nil. (David Frum was saying this back in the early '90s.)

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        7. Jay Nordlinger‏Verified account @jaynordlinger 5 Aug 2020

          It took me a long while to gulp this down, but gulp it down I have, and the taste is awfully bitter, I must tell you. Grouchily yours ...

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        2. Dave - Not @ any con soon‏ @whovian223 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @jaynordlinger

          Great thoughts, but it’s too bad he’s apparently gone all-in on Trump love since then (or maybe that explains why he has?)

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        3. Joe Meek‏ @MaisonDeSnark 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @whovian223 @jaynordlinger

          GOP is getting ready to be in the minority again, which means they'll rediscover a concern for Freedom and Fiscal Responsibility

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