- Fiscal Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be 'correct answers' to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that 'merit' correlates with talents and deserts.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
To analyze Trump is to discover only bottomless appetite and need, and to carve at him is like carving at an online troll: The only thing to discover is the void.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020