The great mistake that conservatives and the great mass of ordinary people who simply don’t care either way make is to think that, if they just give in to the left this time, they’ll finally be satisfied and go away and leave us all in peace.

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...