【例文・単語帳】21-01-21_The conscience of some conservatives

01-21に読んで、聞いた記事

記事の内容：

共和党の中でも、国会議事堂襲撃事件後、反トランプの機運が高まっている。ナンバー3が弾劾に賛成した。

所感：

襲撃後も、半数の共和党支持者は襲撃に反対しない立場だったとのことだった。価値観が多様なのはいいことだが…

知らない単語があった文（Google dictionary）

conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.

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And his newly emboldened Republican critics did not merely stomach his earlier abuses—of ethics rules, migrant children, and so on—but vociferously defended them. Mr McConnell has had more power to check Mr Trump than anyone and has barely tried.

Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something or to behave in a certain way.

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This history of supplication makes the nascent effort to purge Mr Trump and his destructive politics as astonishing as it is welcome.

(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

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He has promoted its most anti-democratic elements, in particular the Tea Party faction, whose bigotry and demonising of their leftist opponents presaged his own.

Obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

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The modern conservative movement always contained contradictions: its love of limited government was belied by its support for supersized defence; the religious right was often illiberal.

Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

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Such tensions were nonetheless harmonised by the fuzzier values Ronald Reagan imbued the movement with: realism, patriotism and prudence.

Inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).

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The Reagan revolution was fomented in the wilderness.

Instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).

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Therefore the right’s most astute critics, Never Trump Republicans, mostly wanted to see it hammered in November.

Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage.

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Expunging Mr Trump from Reagan’s party is a more basic condition for progress.