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What’s in a Word? 0

David Masciotra argues that, in today’s Republican Party, the word “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Here’s how he starts his article:

Gore Vidal took a British television interviewer by surprise in 2012 when he remarked, “When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative,’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not. They’re fascists.”

That might have seemed like hyperbole during the year Mitt Romney became the Republican presidential nominee. But it rings truer as we pass the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term in office.

The entire article is worth your while.

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