Forsaking the gung-ho interventionism of the neoconservative era must not lead to drawing any false equivalence between Western military action and Russia’s imperial aggression.
Free speech and DEI are not minor culture war skirmishes. They are fundamental battles over power. The party must stop treating woke as a political game, hoping to win quick points over gender definitions.
The first sign of MAGA infighting holds big lessons for conservative parties with fresh coalitions. Rehashed Thatcherism is not popular nor feasible.
Governments need not be morally or religiously prescriptive in promoting marriage. Instead, it should be acknowledged empirically that the institution tends to benefit people.
Yet unlike insurgent parties in other countries, the Conservatives have time and again made themselves the party of a status quo that serves only the interests of older voters.
If the West is always the villain and its institutions irredeemably corrupt, what exactly are we trying to preserve? Why not tear it all down?