3/3/2021 - In this episode, I talk about Avik Roy's piece in National Review, "Restoring the Conservative Conscience". The piece talks about the lack of principles in republican and conservative politics, reflecting on Reagan, and building a winning coalition. He suggests building a coalition through working-class freedom based policies and pro-immigration policies. I explain why I don't see this strategy being effective based on my descriptive analysis of our representative democracy. 

Note: In hindsight, I would've added that "equality of opportunity" isn't an end worth striving for - this will luckily come up in future episodes since it comes up often, so I won't try to summarize an argument here.

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"Restoring the Conservative Conscience"

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