Ross Douthat’s Conservative Vision (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Electric tension again last week among Congressional Republicans over how to set their sails.  Tension over the debt ceiling raise.  Over stifled immigration reform.  Over the House leadership of Speaker John Boehner and Tea Party politics.  Behind all that, says my guest today, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, there is a new conservatism struggling to be born.  A “reform conservatism.”  Think Mike Lee, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio. And new thinking on foreign policy, drugs, taxes, poverty.  This hour On Point:  thinker, conservative Ross Douthat on a new “reform conservatism.” /Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/02/18/ross-douthat-conservatives-gop