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This interesting article appeared today:

Conservatism isn’t some monolithic bloc of like-minded individuals, it’s a diverse marketplace of ideas based upon a few shared precepts build upon a foundation of ideas that stretches back for centuries. The terms “liberal” and “conservative” don’t even remotely match their dictionary definition anymore — they haven’t at least since 1968 and quite likely since the New Deal. The political realignment of 1968 brought a massive change to the American ideological spectrum. The 1960s produced the radical left as the former hawks of...