Quote of the day, from a good post by Ken Kersch on the ability of American conservatives to paper over their contradictions:

Political alliances are complex amalgams of not only actions, decisions, and convictions, but also of silences, evasions, and symbols.

Is it a permanent disadvantage of the left, which aspires to a politics of reasoned argument and persuasion, that we are bad at silence and evasion?

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