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Will it take a similar debacle for Spain’s conservatives in that country’s coming election to force Merkel to come to terms with reality?
That is an argument around which all conservatives should be able to rally.
In many eurozone countries today, “fiscal conservatives” are a powerful group, insisting on the need to boost government revenue while bringing spending under control.
In Great Britain, too, leading Conservatives have recently proved willing to raise taxes and attempted to limit future spending.
There, leading politicians who choose to call themselves “fiscal conservatives” – such as Paul Ryan, now the Republican Party’s presumptive vice-presidential nominee to run alongside presidential candidate Mitt Romney in November’s election – care more about cutting taxes, regardless of the effect on the federal deficit and total outstanding debt.
Why do US fiscal conservatives care so little about government debt, relative to their counterparts in other countries?
There is no other country in the world where fiscal conservatives would want to be associated with such a high-stakes gamble.
Still, the economy gained substantial momentum from the middle of Reagan’s first term, and to American conservatives, he remains an economic hero.
Making it obvious that it is Ahmadinejad’s policies that are isolating Iran would strengthen the still-fragile anti-Ahmadinejad alliance of pragmatic conservatives and reformers, which has lately become more vocal.
If they get their way, these self-professed fiscal conservatives will blow up the budget deficit, just as they did in 1981 under Reagan, and just as they did again in 2001 and 2003, thanks to the massive tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush.
Against this background, we must ask ourselves a question that has no easy answer: To what extent should democrats – progressives and conservatives alike – bend the rules in order to protect democracy and the rule of law from those who seek to subvert it?
So hidebound conservatives run Russian universities.
On the other were conservatives, “a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings.”
By this the standard, the right in the United States – the party of Fox News, the Tea Party, and, increasingly, of the Republican Party itself – are no longer conservatives.
Wilson, Hitler, and Obama are linked by a chain of highly permissive association altogether typical of conspiracy theorizing in general, and of its anti-Semitic variety in particular: Wilson was a “progressive”; some progressives dabbled in eugenics (never mind that some conservatives did as well); the eugenics movement influenced Hitler;Obama, too, is a progressive.
Since roughly 1994, when Newt Gingrich engineered the Republican takeover of the US House of Representatives, Republicans have taken to calling themselves “revolutionaries” – not a word often found on the lips of conservatives.
And now that the government has imposed new restrictions on capital flows, the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors will fall further.Capital controls are of course in keeping with the “resistance economy” favored by conservatives, one of whom recently stoked fears of capital flight by declaring that $30 billion had left the country in only a few months.
Capital controls are of course in keeping with the “resistance economy” favored by conservatives, one of whom recently stoked fears of capital flight by declaring that $30 billion had left the country in only a few months.
American conservatives argue that a large public sector is subject to inefficiency and mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic abuse, while the taxation needed to support it blunts economic efficiency.
The Nordic experience also belies conservatives’ claim that a large social welfare state weakens incentives to work and save.
The conservatives seem to believe that American nuclear protection for South Korea is a thing of the past.
Instead, Turnbull has subordinated whatever rational and civilized instincts he was thought to retain to the demands of the small-minded extreme conservatives in his party.
The Kremlin Two StepMoscow – Westerners often see Russian politics in terms of a high-level struggle between liberals and conservatives: Ligachev and Yakovlev under Gorbachev; reformers and nationalists under Yeltsin; siloviki and economic liberals under Putin.
Instead of a two part split between left and right, there was thus a triple division, between anti-globalization conservatives, pro-globalization liberals, and re-distributionist leftists.
According to one view, he is betting that social conservatives and white blue-collar supporters in rural areas will vote on the basis of nationalist and religious sentiment and antipathy toward secular coastal elites, rather than for their own financial interests.
If the neo- conservatives had instead focused their attentions on strengthening the soft power of Turkey, they could have done far more to advance the cause of democracy in the Middle East.
Rather, the divide is between conservatives who promote equality of opportunity and progressives who promote equality of outcomes.
For years, conservatives and liberals alike underestimated Thatcherism.
Though intolerant conservatives are currently in firm control of Iran’s government, the moderates and reformists among the political elite – dormant but not dead – may be resuscitated by Obama’s victory.
The political danger for the Conservatives is that they are misjudging public sentiment.
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