“How is that not “ the ideology that has made our country great from the beginning, and that is the combination of liberty and personal responsibility?””
Okay, that’s partly it. But it’s more than a belief about what laws will do. True conservatism is based on a belief about what’s right and what’s wrong.
This unifying belief is ultimately much stronger and longer lasting than the current artificial divisions on issues.
Okay, I can see that it’s more than laws.
However, the political coalitions - governments and the recent Reagan sort of coalitions - do involve an assumption about laws and lawmaking.