Being a real Conservative in 2020 is more important than ever, but not because of the ever burgeoning left or populist right

Real conservatism is about the things we love, not reacting to what makes us afraid. Conservatives need to break the false narrative that we are determined by nostalgia and a hatred of change.

Willam F. Buckley, the everfading icon of the American right, famously wrote of Conservatism that

“It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so.”

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