Bill Kristol, Weekly Std
It would be nice, in a way, to be a progressive. You’d be confident you know the direction History is moving. And you’d have faith that the direction in which History is moving is the direction in which History should be moving.So you’d think of politics as a drive along a highway to the future. Your decisions would consist mostly of when to step on the gas or, occasionally, when to tap the brakes. You might make occasional errors of judgment as to speed. But direction would be no problem. And at the end of the day, whatever the messiness of the real world and however much some choices seemed…
Source: Real Clear Politics