Republican politics, with its tight linkage between special economic interests and cultural conservatism, has been mostly immune to populist messages.

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Conservatives like the cultural conservatism of that time, while liberals pine for the days when the middle class seemed at its strongest.

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The outlook for Texas Democrats is quite bleak, as Republicans are very much in the majority on the major issues, which continue to reflect traditions of cultural conservatism and minimalist government.

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His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.

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But the president also understood that as liberalism became more fashionable among the young, so conservatism was gaining momentum as a counter-cultural force of its own.

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