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Vice is the conservative moat because the conservative movement has spent decades making it so.

Evil done while doing pursing good is good, after all, as Conservative Catholic intellectuals made clear when defending the torture of our captive enemies, and as SCOTUS affirmed in Trump v. USA.

Once Pat Buchanan declared war on American culture, and Jonah Goldberg explained that all fascism was actually liberalism, the conservative license to embrace vice to defeat evil was absolute.

In this moral milieu, adultery is proof of virility and attractiveness. In this moral milieu wealth and alleged intelligence substitutes for virtue. In this moral milieu Biden's attending church every week is proof of his perfidy.

See how easy it is?

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