You’ll never convince a conservative they’re being a hypocrite, but you can arm as many reasonable people as possible with arguments they can use to convince their dumbass aunts, dads, cousins, and friends to show up and vote against evil. At least that’s my hope.

But it is also philosophically of interest to me that Strong Towns should be considered the very model of a modern Conservative political force while they are widely considered in pop culture to be WAY far left. The fact that being “conservative” today means having feelings-based political motivations and rejecting evidence-based approaches as its core precepts makes me tired and sad.