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magazine survey, 69
    child labor, steady decline in without federal legislation, 223–24
    children
    Â Â Â Â  Conly on restricting numbers of, 205
    Â Â Â Â  educational opportunities and, 119–22
    Â Â Â Â  liberals and empathy for, 86–91, 107–8
    Â Â Â Â  poverty and single parents, 211
    Â Â Â Â  Watson on deciding who should have, 172
    Children’s Defense Fund, 88
    Christianity
    Â Â Â Â  consequences of yielding to modernity, 13–20, 29
    Â Â Â Â  selfishness and, 23
    Â Â Â Â  used as call to humanitarianism, 52–55
    civil rights
    Â Â Â Â  early 20th century liberal racism, 100–103
    Â Â Â Â  Kennedy and, 95, 103–4
    Â Â Â Â  political importance after World War II, 103–6
    Clean Water Act, 200–202
    Clinton, Bill, xvi, xxi, 87, 202
    Â Â Â Â  empathy and, xii
    Â Â Â Â  Kelly on honesty and, 147–48
    Â Â Â Â  Krauthammer on foreign policy and social work, 50–51
    Â Â Â Â  size of government and, 189, 192, 198–99
    Â Â Â Â  welfare reform in 1996 and, 28, 108–9
    Clinton, Hillary, 30, 89, 90
    coal, environmental concerns and, 166–68
    Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 116
    Cohn, Jonathan, 68, 69–70
    compassion
    Â Â Â Â  dangers to democracy, 239–41
    Â Â Â Â  definitions of, 3–4
    Â Â Â Â  Democratic Party’s political use of, xvi–xviii
    Â Â Â Â  lack of theory of, 10–12, 21, 235
    Â Â Â Â  liberalism’s “manifesto” for, 6–10
    Â Â Â Â  liberal paternalism and, 203–5
    Â Â Â Â  modernity and, 13–18, 21–34
    Â Â Â Â  rhetoric of, xi–xviii, 4
    Â Â Â Â  see also compassionate conservatism; domestic policies; international policies; liberalism
    compassionate conservatism
    Â Â Â Â  Bush’s concept of, 206, 209–12
    Â Â Â Â  problems with, 206–7
    Conly, Sarah, 203–4, 205
    conservatism
    Â Â Â Â  Democrats’ framing of to exclude compassion, xviii–xx
    Â Â Â Â  differences with liberalism over means and efficacy of programs, 222–29
    Â Â Â Â  immigration policies framed as bigoted, 56–58
    Â Â Â Â  liberals on conservatives’ “unwillingness to govern,” 141–42
    Â Â Â Â  need to clarify mission, 236–39
    Â Â Â Â  need to protect democracy from self-destruction, 239–41
    Â Â Â Â  resistance to statism and bullying government, 195–206
    Â Â Â Â  Waldman on SCHIP ad, 8–9
    Â Â Â Â  see also compassionate conservatism
    Constitutional concerns, gun control and, 159–60. See also Supreme Court, of U.S.
    Cook, John, 120
    Cotton, Tamaria, 179–80
    Coulson, Andrew, 140
    Crawford, Matthew, 144–45
    Crisis of Confidence, The (Schlesinger), 99
    Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 25
    Cropsey, Joseph, 220
    cultural nationalism, 79–80
    Cuomo, Mario, 7, 40–43, 55, 56, 88, 185
    Czechoslovakia, 78
    Daniels, Mitch, 142, 187, 191
    Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice report, 182
    Declaration of Independence, 78
    deferred gratification, self-interest well understood and, 20
    democracy
    Â Â Â Â  Schlesinger on, 30
    Â Â Â Â  self-destructive nature of and conservatives’ future role, 239–41
    Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 20–21
    Democratic National Conventions
    Â Â Â Â  1936, xviii, 110
    Â Â Â Â  1948, 103
    Â Â Â Â  1972, 125–26
    Â Â Â Â  1984, 7, 185
    Â Â Â Â  1988, 139, 208
    Â Â Â Â  1996, xi–xii
    Â Â Â Â  2000, xii–xiii
    Â Â Â Â  2012, 207
    Democratic Party
    Â Â Â Â  as party of government, 228
    Â Â Â Â  political use of compassion, xvi–xviii
    Â Â Â Â  principle constituencies of, 238
    Democratic Republic of the