Best Line of the Week: Not-So-True Conservatives

May 25th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Okay, so the week happened to be more than two years ago. But it’s the best line of my week:

The old formulation defined conservatism as the desire to protect traditional values from the intrusion of big government; the new one seeks to promote traditional values through the intrusion of big government.

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