“The philosopher Roger Scruton said that conservatism starts in ‘the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.’ America as formerly constituted—warts and all—was a good thing. It was good to be a country that cared about babies born with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, that was willing to save their lives for pennies a day. It was good to be a country that cared about Ukrainian children torn from their families by a hostile power, that strove toward a future that saw them home. Maybe someday we can claw our way there again—if we remember.”
Andrew Egger in The Bulwark…
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