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Frank Buckley is professor at George Mason's Scalia School of Law.

He joined us a while back to discuss his book Curiosity and its 12 Rules for Life.

Today, he joins us to discuss a new book, Progressive Conservatism, How Republicans

Will Become America's National Governing Party.

A bold prediction, Frank. Welcome, Professor Buckley. Thank you for having me.

All right. An opening question comes up right off in the book. What is the, quote, dream of Republican

virtue? It's something I push in the book, and the idea is this. at a time when one party has really given up on America,

the idea that there's something noble about America. The other party should be the unifying

party that defends all that's noble in our country, going back to the beginning, and going back

to the beginning means recovering the founder's dream of Republican virtue,

which is a country led by people dedicated to the common good of the country in a personally,

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