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The Things We Used to Believe

If believing in the Constitution makes me a liberal, then maybe “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to.

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Feb 10, 2026
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Trygve Olson is a strategist, pro-democracy fighter and a founding Lincoln Project advisor. Subscribe to his Searching for Hope Substack.

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It started, like too many things do these days, with a Facebook comment.

Someone I’ve known a long time — someone who used to knock doors for the same candidates I did — wrote that I must be …

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