Conservatism Is Not A Doctrine Of Contentment.

Mounting A Campaign Against Plutocracy Makes As Much Sense To The Typical Washington Liberal As Would Circulating A Petition Against Gravity. What Our Modernized Liberal Leaders Offer Is Not Confrontation But A Kind Of Therapy For Those Flattened By The Free-market Hurricane: They Counsel Us To Accept The Inevitability Of The Situation.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Whereas Liberals Are Thought To Erupt Self-righteously Whenever They Feel Like It, Conservatives Believe That They Themselves Are Never Permitted To Say What They Really Think.

Acknowledging Class Was Always Difficult For 'new Democrats' - It Was Second-wave, It Was Divisive - But 2008 Made Retro Politics Cool Again.

The Obama Administration's Plan Is To Have The Federal Reserve Regulate Banks That Might Pose A 'systemic Risk' If They Were To Fail.