the thoughtful progressive sounds very much like the thought ful conservative. and a thoughtful conservative, like george will, knows that you have to make changes to accommodate the people or you'll lose all legitimacy. so you have to make change. so change is a progressive impulse and it's a conservative calculation. and sometimes the calculation merges with the impulse. rachel is a progressive, a thoughtful progressive. george will is a thoughtful conservative. they both realize, hands off, number one. and two, the people do want change over there. recognize it, accommodate it, either cheer for it or whatever, but accept it. and i think that's what we're doing now. americans are growing up. we saw the chinese change their form of government in the late 40s and thought, oh, it was the mistake tor the collaboration o the treason of a number of china hands. the fairbanks and all that. they were all humiliated by our