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Campaigners for democracy admired Yeltsin’s struggle against the conservatives in the politburo – especially after he was forced out of the party’s inner circle in November 1987.
By June 1991, after quashing a series of challenges to his leadership, he became the first elected president of Russia; two months later, real power fell into his hands, after the failed putsch against Gorbachev of August 1991 by conservatives seeking to prevent the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
Many US conservatives see Lula as a hardcore socialist unable to compromise, and refuse to recognize that he has changed significantly.
When I first became interested in politics, nearly 50 years ago, Labour and the Conservatives attracted some 90% of the popular vote.
The latest polls indicate 34% support for Labour, and 32% for the Conservatives.
Labour’s popularity has been trending down from the high 30s over the last couple of years; the Conservatives have remained stuck at around 30%.
As a result, psephologists calculate that the Conservatives have to win at least 4% more of the popular vote than Labour in order to win more seats.
Conservatives will hammer away on the economy, as they did in 1992, the last time that they won an election outright.
To strengthen public accounts, both conservatives and progressives should start promoting a long-term balance-sheet-oriented approach to policymaking, ensuring that the debates are based on relevant data.
Today, many social conservatives still blame Friedan and feminism for inducing women to abandon the home for the workplace, thus destabilizing families and placing their children at risk.
Social conservatives are wrong to blame women’s entry into work on feminism.
Conservatives demand fiscal adjustment up front, whatever the consequences.
Already, the Conservatives are locked in an internal battle that they can only try to obscure.
The same goes for Conservatives who think Brexit is leading the country to disaster.
So it was the Conservatives who ended up winning the 1983 election in a landslide – a result that launched the still-unpopular Labour’s long trudge back toward the political center.
Conservatives in both the United States and South Korea may argue that North Korea must first move toward denuclearization before any kind of economic assistance is offered.
Dynamic attempts at political and economic liberalization, including reviving the stock exchange launched by the Shah, were slowed or scuttled by political hardliners, social conservatives, and Ayatollah Khamenei.
Conservatives want not only to silence the reformers, but to provoke confrontation.
For more than five decades, power within Europe has been divided between conservatives and socialists who, collectively, have failed to address the challenges of the day.
The bulk of their supporters were indeed social conservatives and protectionists who wanted to undo the social changes that began in the late 1960s.
But the social conservatives inspired by such atavistic and authoritarian sentiments do not make up majorities in any Western country.
To achieve majorities, the socially conservative protectionists had to unite with the remnants of the Thatcher-Reagan laissez faire movement, who resent the interventionist economic management of the post-2008 period and want to intensify the competition, deregulation, and globalization that social conservatives resent.
If the US election on November 8 confirms Trump’s failure to bind social conservatives and economic liberals into a winning coalition, similar disintegration is likely among European populists, too.
That, in turn, would give courage to pro-European Conservatives.
Conservatives in the House of Commons (and in the wider party) want to be reassured that their leader shares their antagonism for the entire European integration process.
As a result of this shift, in the near future Sarkozy’s conservatives may have no choice but to ally with the Front.
Conservatives insist on a more cautious approach that avoids the "shock therapy" and drastic overhauls experienced in postcommunist Eastern Europe.
Self-proclaimed “fiscal conservatives,” such as Mick Mulvaney (a former member of the House of Representatives who now runs government finances as head of the Office of Management and Budget), are close to enacting a massive tax cut, despite knowing that it will drive up the deficit and the national debt.
All this combines with an increase in the electorate's interest in moderate centrist conservatives.
Long before the United Kingdom’s recent general election, which the Conservatives won by a margin that stunned their critics, the facts about the country’s economic performance had indeed changed.
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