Okay, last and final word on this. To further illustrate that the common good, like liberty or democracy or due process or equality, is another normal political criterion on which we deliberate collectively in the practice of politics, I thought I could turn Charlie’s question around. He asks, appropriately, of common good talkers, What do you want to do? That’s good. A better question might be, What do you want to establish? I answered in terms of our strengthening family institutions, our national independence, sovereignty.
For freedom conservatives, I might ask: What do you want to liberate me from? Or what institutions do you want to alter, dissolve, or disestablish?
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