Coloradans are not radical environmentalists or ideological advocates of a "Drill Baby Drill" energy policy; instead, their opinions are somewhere in between.
Even more disturbing to many of us in the academic world is that the push for laissez-faire "legitimacy" by its ideological advocates runs counter to more than 230 years of historical evidence.
In 1964, the ideological position advocated by Barry Goldwater was nearly beyond the realm of the G.O.P. imagination; by 1980, Goldwater Republicanism was Reagan Republicanism Newt Gingrichh's 1994 Contract with America was well to the right of Reagan; and, in 2012, Mitt Romney ran to the right of the breakdown lane.
The advertising industry quit, blaming "ideological" privacy advocates whom they likened to Bolsheviks.
Others use their ideological pedigrees to advocate a neo-Maoist approach, which includes scant regard for the law.
For those interested in the subtle movement of politicians away from the ideological extremes they advocate while primaries are underway, the most interesting part of the Romney transition is almost certain to start very soon.
A Congressional Republican like Rohrabacher may have ideological reasons for advocating regime change in the region, but politics play a role, too.
Moskowitz was publicity director of the Democratic State Committee; she edited Governor Smith's speeches, and most important, she advocated ideological goals for his administration.
Despite coming together across ideological lines, DACA advocates like these face stiff opposition at the state level, where the attorneys general of 10 conservative-leaning states have promised to sue the Trump administration if it repeals DACA by Sept. 5.
The current plan is supported neither by theory nor experience, only by the wishful ideological thinking of its advocates.
