Stop Trying to Make Right-Wing Social Democracy Happen

When Compact magazine launched yesterday, its website included a “Note From the Founders” laying out the shared political vision of the magazine’s three founding editors. They’re willing to publish an ideologically diverse range of writers, they say, but their “editorial choices are shaped” by a “desire for a strong social-democratic state that defends community — local and national, familial and religious — against a libertine left and a libertarian right.”

There are two problems with this vision of social democracy and social conservatism fusing together to reshape American society. The first is that, as a matter of political strategy, it’s never going to happen. The second is that, as a matter of justice, it shouldn’t happen.

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