Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

  • ECIN96@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you can just hijack any and all “good” policies as inherently progressive then you’re just a self-fuelling fire who wants to hate conservatives no matter what.

    • sauerkraus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t be crediting them with enacting good policy if it wasn’t progressive.

      If you can show an example of opposing progress that is good I’m all in on that conservative policy.

      The ESA was not good because it maintained the status quo. It was good because it was progressive. The fact that it was implemented during a conservative presidency is irrelevant.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You’re buying in too much to the branding of big-P Progressive. The EPA, and environmental protections, are inherently little-c conservative positions.

        Not everything that is good is Progressive, and not everything Progressives want is good, or even intelligent. Rent control, as one very basic example, doesn’t work, and yet Progressives across America push it.