These are not the anarchists who wear black and set fire to trash cans at demonstrations. We are witnessing an election where nominal conservatives are no longer seeking to build a better government, but are seeking to make the government so weak that it would have virtually no say other than the most basic police and military forces. We have strayed so far from that path today we may never find our way back. I was reminded of a time when conservatives, on the whole, sought similar things for this country as liberals-albeit through different routes. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, for example, convinced the American Bar Association to support the creation of Legal Services.
Buy from QuakerBooks Recently I went to a celebration of one of the founders of the federal agency called Legal Services Corporation, where I was reminded how much of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was supported, and even at times led, by conservatives.
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