Conservatives must defeat socialists at the language game

Published January 24, 2019 9:40pm ET



As conservatives confront avowedly socialist policies from Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., we should be guided by a philosophy of diametric reciprocity. Namely, for each socialist policy, we should re-frame the issue and offer a conservative alternative.

We must sell our ideas as moral narratives. We must do so, because socialists such as Ocasio-Cortez, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are masters at framing their ideas as self-evidently beneficial. Consider how we might respond better.

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