...According to Reihan Salam, that might not be such an irredeemably bad thing. Salam, a journalist, commentator, and fellow at the New America Foundation, is one of a few conservative thinkers outlining what a new big-government conservatism might look like. He wrote a 2008 book, “Grand New Party,” with the columnist and blogger Ross Douthat, another rising star among young conservatives and the New York Times’ newest political columnist. In it, they return again and again to the issue of how a modern Republican party could strategically embrace government, allaying the economic anxieties of important white working-class voters without fostering a culture of government dependence and waste.

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