Authentic conservatism enjoys not only a profound consistency in each of its constituent parts (providing for, when full-orbed, an ability to address a myriad of issues in a holistic, intellectually cogent, coherent and nuanced manner … complete with consistently predictable outcomes) but it also contributes to an ethos grounded in transcendent values.

“people like me are the really smart ones”

but i’m marking him down for “full-orbed”…