Disraeli was a rhetorician, not a theorist; he was a genius of the political imagination, not a policy wonk. He intuited that the breakdown of traditional society in the modern era did not foretell a nation of individuals coordinated by reason as they pursue their self-interest—the modern liberal dream. It would instead call out for renewed forms of solidarity. firstthings/onthesquare/2013/11/look-to-disraeli-conservatives
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