Hitch in WSJ

[Peter K.]

Why equate the word "conservatively" with the word "cowardly"?  Why
avoid the label "conservative"?  Conservatism is a venerable
political tradition with some insights superior to liberalism's.
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Yoshie
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Which insights would those be? What's so venerable about that
tradition?

I'm not going to defend liberalism, but to me conservatism stands
for a tradition that's okay with class society and grinding the faces
of the poor. Anti-democratic, reactionary and non-revolutionary
in other words.

Peter