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That we cant just take a country club view, winners and losers, this would be donald trump, i dont care about them. Ive got my cadillac, all is well in the world. On a lot of the policy proposals nancy makes on the left, i agree. I may not quite agree with the scale she wants to do them on but we agree that we should help poor people and pregnant women and so forth, that there should be not a fist in peoples face but an open hand of help and that is perfectly consistent with what we unfortunately called capitalism. The ordinary capitalists transaction, we buy a cup of coffee and for one thing for sure act of buying a cup of coffee is mutually advantageous in both people are happy about it but furthermore youll notice in your own life that if you make a habit of going to that coffee shop you eventually become friends. Commerce creates friendship the way church creates friendship. Or College High School class. They are not forcing each other to do things. They are allowed to say no and o
Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment i am a senior fellow at the endowment it is great pleasure for me to welcome you all to this book g discussion of teethreeol age of iron which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. So with this book in the moment before i do i want to extend on your behalf and mine a warm welcome to call and himself and our distinguished commentators. As you probably know colin is a professor at the school of endowment at George Mason University and non fellow at aei literally next door. He has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics and this is trademark direct to examine the concept of conservative nationalism a phenomenon brought to public attention through the rise of President Trump so in terms of the history of ideas and how they have found manifestation especially in the debates of americas role in the world it is encompassing and granular and despite the gravity of the subject i can assure you it is a very delightful read. I have re