Principled Conservatives

A figure haunts the right. A pale, fusty, slightly sad figure. It is the figure of the principled conservative.

You know the type. I know the type. There is a “principled conservative” in me, of course, “its hunkers as heavy as hard luck”. Perhaps there is one in you as well. He is a little pompous. Long-winded. Fond of second-hand aphorisms about how gr…