As a lifelong conservative, it grieves me to witness how the majority of political “leaders” have abandoned the values that once defined them, chosen to play to a base they’ve radicalized for their own purposes, and failed to support policies that would serve the greater good. While “Republican” leaders seem to have won the day in taking from the poor and giving to the rich, and Democratic leaders press into righteous indignation against Republicans, I submit that we need to step back, at least a little, from what we’re against and step into what we’re for.

That’s a hard thing to do when President Donald Trump has marshalled the whole of government to advance an agenda so antithetical to American values. However, for the sake of both our mental health and our civic effectiveness, we ought

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