There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has
come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary
conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the
modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»
This is particularly surprising for us today, for we tend to know Burke, when we do, as the father of
modern conservatism, while we have
come to understand America's founding principles as resolutely liberal and progressive.