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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.