Reagan and “America’s Exceptional Conservatism”

By Matthew Continetti
Published March 2, 2010 8:41pm ET
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Reagan and “America’s Exceptional Conservatism”
In yesterday’s Financial Times, Gideon Rachman writes that Ronald Reagan “debased” traditional conservatism because Traditional conservatives disdain populism and respect knowledge. They believe in balancing the government’s books. And they are pragmatists who are suspicious of ideology. Reagan, in Rachman’s view, propagated the “cult of the idiot savant (the wise fool),” took the GOP away […]

In yesterday’s Financial Times, Gideon Rachman writes that Ronald Reagan “debased” traditional conservatism because

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