Conservatives used to care about community. What happened? - E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post

Conservatives used to care about community. What happened? - The Washington Post
"For much of our history, Americans — even in our most quarrelsome moments — have avoided the kind of polarized politics we have now. We did so because we understood that it is when we balance our individualism with a sense of communal obligation that we are most ourselves as Americans. The 20th century was built on this balance, and we will once again prove the prophets of U.S. decline wrong if we can refresh and build upon that tradition. But doing so will require conservatives to abandon untempered individualism, which betrays what conservatism has been and should be." E.J. Dionne Jr.
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