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The reason why French parliamentarians, ranging from Communists to conservatives, support this ban is a general consensus that wearing the burqa is “contrary to the values of the Republic.”
Western conservatives are no less prone to creative destruction than Western liberals: conservatives, indeed, are well known for inventing traditions.
In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.
Others, pointing to the German conservatives' emphasis on social values, will say that we are as statist as the Social Democrats.
These two traits, although they seem to conflict, and are certainly different from the values of American and British conservatives, nonetheless form a sound basis for a realistic pragmatism and the shunning of ideological politics - which is precisely the politics that Germany now requires.
Far from being willing to coerce people to live in a certain way, German conservatives seek a politics that recognizes limits - the limits of the state, the market, and the individual.
It is in recognition of this fact that German conservatives strive, for example, to strike a balance between economy and ecology.
For German conservatives, European integration and national identity are not warring concepts, as they seem to be to our opponents and so many others.
Quite a number of German businessmen and industrialists, who were conservatives but not Nazis, thought they could live with Hitler, as long as he benefited them financially.
Leftists can be just as blinkered as conservatives.
Because no fundamental issues separate pro-EU Conservatives from pro-EU Labourites, practical cross-party cooperation has started to occur.
These Conservatives also pressed for sharp cuts in government spending that would hurt the poor.
But, ultimately, his chief failure had been to hand power to military and civilian hawks – wrongly called conservatives, for their vision was a radical reordering of Europe.
So, even as economic conservatives demand spending cuts, there are strong forces pushing in the other direction.
In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard-line conservatives, because their moderate left-wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.
Sweden’s recently re-elected moderate conservatives will have to rely on the Democrats to form a viable government.
As a result, mainstream conservatives are more likely to compromise on principles that we have long taken for granted, such as civil equality and religious freedom.
Indeed, fearful of the populists’ power, in or out of government, the response from mainstream conservatives – and even some social democrats – to their illiberal views has already been inexcusably soft.
The Greek crisis cannot be used either to weaken European conservatives and change the balance of power within the EU, or to remove the Greek left from office.
Since then, like Western Europe's conservatives, they managed to – at least in political terms – botch nearly everything.
For like their Western counterparts, the Polish and Hungarian conservatives are caught between their increasingly unappealing neo-liberalism and their increasingly anachronistic communitarian traditions.
Unlike in the English-speaking world, liberalism has never been really popular on the European continent, and the conservatives have always appealed to the patriotic and religious feelings of their supporters.
The choice that the Austrian conservatives now face appears to confirm this stark dichotomy.
Friedman’s views made him a guiding light for economic conservatives worldwide.
But Friedman’s consistent anti-statism also led him to embrace positions that ran afoul of many conservatives’ political sensibilities, underscoring the intellectual honesty that was the hallmark of his career.
This is not desirable for its own sake, as conservatives might argue, but rather for the additional scope that it creates for monetary policy.
Conservatives in the United States, for example, frequently rail against the “madness” of Islamic terrorists, and regard attempts to understand terrorism as appeasement or liberalism gone wild.
Aspiring fiscal conservatives around the world thus might be interested in learning four tricks that American politicians commonly use when promising to cut taxes while simultaneously reducing budget deficits.
This, too, would be voted down by all the opposition parties, along with dozens of centrist Conservatives.
Whether it is conservatives like Sarkozy, Christian Democrats like Merkel, right-wing populists like Berlusconi, or socialists like Zapatero, political affiliation appears to make no difference.
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