This is progressive Conservatism in action, a traditional suspicion of state power combined with a clear grasp of the modern world producing the right approach, and the right plan of action to increase personal freedom and political accountability, restore trust, and help bring about the new politics we need so badly.

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Putin, of course, is even less bad than Brezhnev, and the country over which he rules quite obviously accords its citizens a vastly larger degree of personal freedom including the right to leave.

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The 1960s saw a huge breakthrough in terms of freedom of expression, of lifestyle, of the individual's right to live their own personal life in the way they choose.

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