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  • Have any ‘Reformicons’ Worked in Government?

    03/09/2015 8:42:41 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 18 replies
    PJ Media ^ | March 9, 2015 | J. Christian Adams
    If you think you haven’t heard of “reformicons” or “reform conservatives,” don’t sell yourself short. You are already familiar with this latest movement within the Republican Party, albeit under different branding. This piece, entitled “The Good Right” (as compared with … ?), sums up the Reformicon agenda this way: Yuval Levin, one of reform conservatism’s brightest thinkers, told Sam Tanenhaus that “a shrinking or scaling-back of government” was not his aim. He sought “an entire reimagining of it.” He argues that “a true Burkean conservatism would recast the federal government as the facilitator and supporter of local institutions who are...
  • If the ‘Reformicons’ want to ‘reform,’ they can start by cutting regulations

    02/18/2015 1:30:16 PM PST · by SleeperCatcher · 3 replies
    Absolute Rights ^ | 02/18/2015 | Jon E. Dougherty
    Reform conservatives – “reformicons,” as columnist E.J. Dionne has labeled them – are out to change the Republican Party in a way that frees it from the the “nostalgia” of Ronald Reagan. The message of these young, “big” thinkers is simply that today’s GOP ought not be your daddy’s Republican Party. No. It must “evolve” into something else in these modern times, something far less as extreme as Reaganism.