Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
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Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.