It can most generously be called a strain of laziness that runs through the conservative movement, or most accurately described as an everlasting authoritarian impulse: The deep yearning for struggle to end, to be done with politics, to stop with the messiness of representative democracy. Probably by now you had| Bad Faith Times
Your political worldview invariably comes down to whether you think the point of politics is to be right, or to win. Being right – winning the argument, taking the crown in the so-called marketplace of ideas – has long been the goal of the American center-left. The facts will prevail, the thinking| Bad Faith Times