E.J. Dionne: "American conservatism is becoming something very different from what it once was"

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4. No, not really

Conservatism has always been about being obsequious to those with wealth or power, not rocking the boat and doing what the clergy tells you to. They've never had any use for the poor, common laborers, immigrants, or the lower classes. They have always been, in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, "engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."