How to build a Northwest conservatism26 Dec
Just over half a century ago, conventional wisdom declared that America was all liberal, with a few McCarthyites on one fringe and a handful of communists on the other. The liberal scholar Lionel Trilling wrote in 1950, “nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.” Rather, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.”
Much the same could be said for the Northwest these days. With the resounding defeat of Republicans in statewide and Congressional elections last month…
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