The bone-chilling voice of pragmatism

A Republican denounces conservatism:

My experience is that conservatives do not ... see that peoples ... always seek someone to offer them a vision of how and why to live. They will seek this from whatever institutions happen to exist near them. And they won't be concerned that the documents that facilitated the formation of a particular institution might not have set forth that role as being a role for that institution to perform.

A professional conservative denounces small government: "Small isn't beautiful".