Reihan Salam: "Conservatism is deeply unpopular."
December 22
Reihan, who counts himself as a conservative, writes: It’s not just that Republican partisans are unpopular. They’re not, or at least not yet. It’s that conservatism, understood loosely as an “ideology of self-reliance,” has failed to make serious inroads since the mid-'90s. It’s still nowhere near a popular majority. This is why conservative politicians are often forced to use deception to advance conservative policy proposals.
Reihan Salam is a writer living in Brooklyn. He regularly analyzes the Sunday political talk shows for TAP Online.
He is a former reporter-researcher at The New Republic.
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