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conservatism

noun as in opposition to change

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The 2028 financial targets didn’t surprise positively overall, partly due to the company’s plan to move away from lower-margin businesses and possibly some conservatism, he says.

Mr. George has played an essential role in articulating and advancing a robust social conservatism rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and the American founding.

Today, “it seems like conservatism is rewriting itself, exploring where to go. Does Tucker represent a legitimate conservatism? Everything has begun to change and shift.”

But curiously, and perhaps ironically, his range of interests, though in fact reprising venerable leftwing sympathies, may also chime with the sort of conservatism that values settled skills and customs—a settled pace of life.

It’s past time that principled conservatives speak up and speak out, for the sake of conservatism and the country.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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