He's mischaracterising the economics; his position here is an ideological creed, one which he will simply have to accept is not shared by most Americans or by the highly-credentialed economists advising the political party that won this election.
Reagan is remembered as the keeper of the conservative ideological creed, and Nixon never pretended to have the same kind of philosophical core, or a set of beliefs that was distinct from his opportunism.
A laisser-faire attitude towards IVF has, for instance, already helped countless childless couples have children.But scepticism, not just of ideological creeds but also of technology, is also part of liberalism.
Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet (William Collins) is an excellent political biography of a towering Whig parliamentarian who conferred an ideological definition on the creed of conservatism.
One "underacknowledged answer to 'Why conservatism?,' " writes Mary Eberstadt, the volume's editor, "suggests itself repeatedly in the essays of 'Why I Turned Right': academia, or more properly the staggeringly uniform and unforgiving creed of ideological correctness against which almost every one of these writers sooner or later set his face".
Getting all of America online is a goal that all Americans can support regardless of party creed or ideological doctrine.
He cites the Kennedy case as "an interesting episode because it throws into relief the ideological tensions in the American creed; we want nepotism for ourselves but not for other people".
The creeds that gave them their ideological underpinnings fascism and Christian Democracy have been discredited.
When such characters find and embrace their creed, self-belief fuses with fanatical ideological devotion.
This is a moral concern, but it also has strategic consequences, because radical Islamism, like any aggressive creed, tends to spill over borders, in the form of ideological influence (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan), terrorism (Iran, Afghanistan), or metastasized civil war (Sudan).
Even within particular ideological groups, schisms result in conflicts as violent as those between totally opposed creeds, and heretics are often regarded as more dangerous and hostile than opponents.
