Andrew Sullivan: belief

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…At the state level, do we have Oakeshottian legislators today in America? Well, fewer and fewer, because of the way in which the gerrymandering particularly has made it more important for incumbents to worry about primary opponents than their general election opponents. But I do think, and I’ll echo David Brooks here, that there is more of it than you might imagine — that there are practical things that need to be done, things that need to be rearranged as the society changes and moves, and there are people in politics capable of doing that, who have done that. And certainly at a state level that’s increasingly the case. There are just complicated, difficult things that require administrative skill and political judgment. I think that kind of political judgment, which is not to be too driven by ideology in all things, which will allow the possibility of a prudential, pragmatic adjustment, is what Oakeshottian politics is at some point about. Do you think the American Southeast will walk away from the pandemic as the least traumatized or most traumatized part of the country?…

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