Much or the modern political rhetoric classifies Progressive as the alternative to Conservative. Given what defines classical liberalism, the change may be warranted. Progressives feel the solutions to today’s problems are things we haven’t tried before. Conservatives are sure the solutions of the past would still work. I tend toward Conservatism in my public persona while privately embracing a return to an ancient proposal so radical it appears progressive. Which is why I’m so frustrated at the cowardice of a conservative longing for the unexamined good old days while offering no strategic plan to recapture what we abandoned.