Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read
No; not sure how you got to that take. Consider JD Vance’s NY Times op ed on health care, who decries ideological Republicans. As JD states, common sense (an expression of empirical experience) says that government must play a role in any health care solution, but there can be no such solution as long as ideology (no government spending) trumps common sense. Liberalism and liberal democracy depend on rationality and the common sense of the people. Authoritarianism depends on loyality to an ideological purity.
