http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/08/back-to-the-future-a-party-platform/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/08/back-to-the-future-a-party-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-25977 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:04:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=15098#comment-25977 I definitely appreciate this post. By comparing the Republicans 1956 platform with their current one, we can see that many conservatives today have more in common with Ayn Rand, or F.A. Hayek (ironically both Europeans, and both aetheists) than James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. This disconnect is also partially responsible for the current incoherence of Republican views. I don’t think theirs is a formula for success, electoral or otherwise.

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