Republicans’ social conservatism wins over some Arab Americans
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The Guardian UK ^
| 28 Jul 2024 | Stephen Starr
For John Akouri, whose father immigrated from Tripoli, Lebanon, in 1955, there is only one choice for president in November’s election: Donald Trump... The former president’s supporters are now looking for more voters like Akouri... What they are finding is a growing receptiveness, particularly with certain Arab Americans who find appeal in
Republicans’ conservatism on social issues... Akouri feels that in some ways, Arab Americans have been left out of politics under Biden and his vice-president, Kamala Harris... This year, Michigan Republicans have gone to extra effort to connect with the Arab American community in the state. For instance, during...
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Shocking, or Inevitable? Gallup Survey Shows The Most Dramatic Shift to Social Conservatism in a Decade
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Red State ^
| 06/08/2023 | Mike Miller
I’ll first repeat the question in the headline: Are the results of a recent Gallup survey showing the biggest swing to social conservatism in nearly a decade shocking, inevitable, or somewhere in the middle?Whatever one calls it, it’s a major development — particularly with the 2024 election looming ever closer.Before we dig
into the details of the survey, let’s revisit a football field metaphor I’ve long used to illustrate the U.S. political landscape. The largest portion of the field — say, between the 30-yard lines, for illustrative purposes — is comprised of decent, reasonable people, regardless of political affiliation. The...
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California and Conservatism: Conditions Exist for Conservatism's Revival in the Interior
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National Review ^
| 06/04/2018 | Victor Davis Hanson
I share some of the sentiments of Jay Nordlinger’s Corner post expressing confidence that some day in the future there may be hope for California conservatism. That’s
why I continue to live in the house that I grew up in, despite vast changes in the nature of the rural community I was born into. But I would take sharp issue with Jay’s statement that current critics of the direction of the state are somehow either prejudicial or dispirited: A lot of us conservatives have long written it off. California is too changed: too brown, too illegal, too bloated, too listless....
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis ^
| June/July 2024 | John Fonte
In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These
manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the American way of life.This divergence can best be understood in the context of the history of modern American conservatism, which can be broken into three waves: the first wave, symbolized by William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ronald Reagan, lasted from the mid-1950s to the end of the Cold War; the second wave, symbolized by Paul Ryan and the two Bush presidencies, ran from the 1990s to roughly...
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis, Hillsdale College ^
| June/July edition | John Fonte, Hudson Institute
The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It
is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture. The following is adapted from a talk delivered on April 18, 2024, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington. In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the American way of life. This divergence can best be understood in the context of the...
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
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Imprimis ^
| JUNE/JULY 2024 | John Fonte
The key difference between NatCons and FreeCons has to do with the character of the current political struggle against progressives on the Left. FreeCons believe we are mainly involved in policy arguments. FreeCon
signatory Yuval Levin, for instance, writes that our divisions are a family argument between two forms of liberalism: progressive liberalism and conservative liberalism—we are not, he assures us, in a “political fight to the death.” National conservatives, on the other hand, generally believe we are involved in what the late Angelo Codevilla called a “Cold Civil War”—or as third waver Victor Davis Hanson has put it, we...
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Heightened Activity of Specific Brain Cells Following Traumatic Social Experience Blocks Social Reward and Promotes Sustained Social Avoidance
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mountsinai.org ^
| 11/30/2022
New York, NY (November 30, 2022) Past social trauma is encoded by a population of stress/threat-responsive brain cells that become hyperactivated during subsequent interaction with non-threatening social targets. As
a consequence, previously rewarding social targets are now perceived as social threats, which promotes generalized social avoidance and impaired social reward processing that can contribute to psychiatric disorders, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Brain and Body Research Center at Mount Sinai and published November 30 in Nature. In humans, studies have shown that social trauma impairs brain reward function to the extent that social interaction is no...
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Assistant Professor - Race, Social Inclusion and Social Welfare Institutions - Berkeley Social Welfare
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School of Social Welfare / UC Berkeley ^
| August 2025
Position overview Salary range: The current salary range for the Assistant-level position is $80,800 - $128,700 (9-month academic year salary). However,
off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2026 Application Window Open date: August 15, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Monday, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date. Position description The...
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Conservatism Is Now Everywhere
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Townhall.com ^
| January 29, 2015 | Emmett Tyrrell
WASHINGTON -- There is a problem with the Internet. Its commentary is too often dominated by pinheads. H.L.
Mencken used to complain that only idiots write letters to the editor. That might have been true of his day -- the 1920s and 1930s -- but in our time writers of letters to the editor of newspapers and even of websites are occasionally quite well-informed and even lucid. But others, I am afraid, are indeed pinheads, sitting in their underwear back home, foaming at the mouth, believing that the whole world is profoundly interested in their every word, until the authorities...
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Conservatism vs Populism
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By almost any metric Ted Cruz is the most conservative candidate we have running in the primary. In
2008 and 2012 there was a large voice that said "No more RINO's", "Give me a conservative or I won't vote", and my favorite "It's not about electability, it's about principles". Millions stayed home rather than vote for the lesser of two evils, allowing a wishy-washy moderate Republican to lose to a hard core, fire breathing, far left Democrat. It was a matter of principle, they said. I wonder what principle is at work here now, that causes so many Freepers to...
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Do Millennials Need Conservatism?
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| September 8, 2014 | Spencer Irvine
America has fought for the Constitution and its values for a short time, but liberals and progressives have gotten the upper hand as of late. Tim
Donner, the president of One Generation Away, spoke at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. on the importance of teaching millennials, youth and children about the Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. One Generation Away is a non-profit organization committed to restore American constitutional values. millennials on electronics Donner shared how the Constitution “has been a subject of great debate over the last several years” and yet, “the good news and...
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YOU CAN VOTE FOR CONSERVATISM, BUT YOU CAN’T GET IT
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Power Line ^
| 23 Mar 2018 | John Hinderaker
I first made that observation–you can vote for conservatism, but you can’t get it–quite a few years ago. Sadly,
it remains true, as exemplified by the $1.3 trillion spending monstrosity that President Trump signed today. How bad is the bill? Rand Paul tweeted in real time as he read the bill–or as much of it as he could read through in the hours available. He produced a number of tweets, here are just a few of them: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are gleeful, as they should be. They are in an enviable position: they don’t have to win elections...
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Conservatism 101: Who is Really a Conservative?
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Townhall.com ^
| May 28, 2015 | Bethany Blankley
Most Americans, including most Republicans, do not understand what “conservative” philosophy, principles, and policies are. Merriam-Webster
defines conservative as “believing in the philosophy of conservatism,” which it defines as “belief in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society; dislike of change or new ideas in a particular area.” However, this definition is wrong. The root of conservatism lies in the concept of “ordered liberty” and the fundamental truth that human rights are God-given, not man-made and that individual liberty and freedom are birthrights. Calvin Coolidge, America’s 30th president—perhaps the most conservative president of the last century—emphasized...
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A Roy Moore win is bad for conservatism
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At least that is what conservative talk radio host Michael Medved was saying today. I
don't agree with that opinion, what do you think?
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Conservatism is Calling
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youtube ^
| Published on Oct 25, 2012 | Kyle Becker
Mark Levin had a caller last night that is the maker of this video. Mark
has seen it and is very impressed by it. He took the callers number and is going to see if he can help him produce more like it. The vid is about a year old but it is well worth the 7 min watch if you haven't seen it before. Forgive if it's been posted here before. A FR search turned up nothing. Conservatism is calling
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Catch-Up Conservatism
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Steyn Online ^
| 17 Dec 2020 | Mark Steyn
Every morning, like millions of other conservatives in the United States, I wake up to multiple pleas from Republicans to send money NOW!!! to save the Senate. The latest garbage polls show Perdue a quarter-point ahead and Ms Loeffler half-a-point behind, but, given the rate at which the dodgy mail ballots are
pouring in, it's either going to be a double-header Dem landslide or a narrow enough win for the rock-ribbed two-thirds conservative majority of the Supreme Court to be terrified of hearing any lawsuit on the subject. So the GOP need even more of your dough to prevent the...
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Conservatism And Its Discontents
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American Rattlesnake ^
| June 27, 2016 | Gerard Perry
A few additional notes regarding George Hawley’s fascinating look at dissent within the right: Notwithstanding the Trump Ascendancy, his belief that moderate libertarianism-or conservatarianism, as some have dubbed it-will exert the greatest influence over mainstream conservatism in the years ahead holds some merit. The
disdain the modern conservative movement has for genuinely libertarian ideas is reflected in the figure of Jonah Goldberg, someone whom every group described in Professor Hawley’s book would view with contempt, at best. The fact that his publication has gone out of its way to publish writers who present a watered-down, libertarian lite perspective merely demonstrates...
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Conservatism vs. Progressivism
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The Heritage Foundation / YouTube ^
| 31Oct2018 | Genevieve Wood
The Heritage Foundation’s Genevieve Wood explains three fundamental differences between being a Conservative and being a Progressive.
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A new voice for conservatism
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The Washington Compost ^
| March 24 | George Will
Today's governor, Doug Ducey, is demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the limited-government conservatism with which Sen. Goldwater shaped the modern GOP, after himself being shaped by life in the leave-me-alone spirit of the wide open spaces of near-frontier Arizona. Last year, Ducey, now 52, told National Review, "If you want to learn
something new, you need to read something old. As Barry Goldwater wrote in 'Conscience of a Conservative,' 'My aim is not to pass laws, it’s to repeal them.' " Ducey was preaching what he already had practiced. He took office in January 2015, as the Super Bowl was about...
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RIP, Movement Conservatism
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American Thinker ^
| February 27, 2017 | J.R. Dunn
Among his other accomplishments, Donald Trump, without ever intending to, has fractured conservatism – something that was long overdue. The
American conservative movement has come quite a distance since the middle of the last century, from a small coterie viewed with contempt by the larger culture to the front ranks of a juggernaut that set back the plans of this country’s left-wing collectivists to a degree that its founders would not have considered possible. (Recall William F. Buckley’s statement that the role of conservatism was to “stand athwart history, yelling “stop.” Incredible as it may seem, “history” did stop.) Today,...
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