In 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a speech on behalf of the Barry Goldwater campaign that has become immortalized as “A Time for Choosing.” It has many poignant anecdotes, but one in particular has occupied my mind considerably as of late.

Near the beginning of the speech, Reagan brought up the seemingly age-old question of whether to choose the political left or right…and he rejected that choice. He declared, “There is no such thing as a left or right.” Instead, he said, “there’s only an up or down — up to man’s old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.”

He warned that “regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward cours

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