As I wrote on May 12 (and earlier, too, but I was too lazy to locate and link to it):
[T]his nation's most towering manifestations of socialism -- Social Security and Medicare -- are by now splendid examples of, in reality, conservatism writ large.
And finally, a conservative gets it. Michael Gerson:
Conservatives should understand that much of the opposition to Medicare reform is conservative, at least in form. It is rooted in a fear of change and a resentment of meddling officials.... In a choice between the status quo and major change, a center-right country generally will choose the status quo.
Gerson got little else right in his Medicare-muddling column today, but the above are lessons in political philosophy that progressive Democrats need to learn well.
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