‘Coalitions of interest are often stronger than coalitions of values.” So observed Alex McCobin, the co-founder of Students for Liberty, whom I recently found myself chatting with on a ranch in the hill country of central Texas. Alex’s remark got me thinking about how partisan Democrats approach public policy, and why they’ve been so successful at expanding government over the past 80 years.
We tend to think of the Republican and Democratic parties as mirror images of each other, as ideologically antithetic entities trying to advance opposing agendas. But the Republican and Democratic parties — and the people who compose them — think about policy in very different ways.
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