"Small Government" Talk is Just Rhetoric
E.J. Dionne, The New RepublicWASHINGTON -- Edmund Burke, one of history's greatest conservatives, warned that abstractions are the enemy of responsible government."I never govern myself, no rational man ever did govern himself, by abstractions and universals," Burke wrote. "A statesman differs from a professor in a university; the latter has only the general view of society; the former, the statesman, has a number of circumstances to combine with those general ideas." Receive news alertsAlas for all of us and for American conservatism in particular, the new Republican majority that took control...
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