Caro S.<p>Some years ago I tracked down the post where this quote of Frank Wilthoit on conservatisme comes from:</p><p>"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."</p><p>It wasn't by Wilthoit the political scientist, who died in 2010, but Wilthoit the composer who wrote it in 2018 as a reply to a Crooked Timber post. In the rest of his reply he gives this solution: </p><p>"So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."</p><p>Here's an interview with him and a link to the blog post. His reply is number 26. </p><p><a href="https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/business/2022/06/wil</span><span class="invisible">hoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Wilthoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilthoit</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AntiConservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiConservatism</span></a></p>