Opinion: 'Downton Abbey' reminds us what 'conservatism' really means
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can’t stand what American conservatism has become. A movement ostensibly devoted to conserving the best of America is instead tearing down the rule of law and tearing the country apart in order to protect a crude and cruel demagogue. Today’s conservatives equate civility with weakness and moderation with selling out.
For those who have less important things to do, “Downton Abbey” is the story of the Crawley family, headed by Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham , and his American wife, Cora . They live in a vast “country house” known as, yes, Downton Abbey. Like the 1970s show “,” the series toggles between the lives of the nobility upstairs and the servants downstairs. Much of the focus is on what English newspaper readers in the 1920s would have called “hatches, matches and dispatches” — i.e.
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