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In March, a group of conservative thinkers started a new organization called American Compass, which aims to move the Republican Party past clichĆ©s about Ronald Reaganā€™s policies.

ā€œApplying conservative principles doesnā€™t mean just keep flipping through the 1980 playbook until you find the right tax cut,ā€ said Oren Cass, a founding member of American Compass who serves as its executive director.

ā€œIt has to mean going back to the actual principles, and applying them to today’s challenges,ā€ Cass said in an interview on ā€œThe Long Game,ā€ a Yahoo News podcast. ā€œI think thatā€™s something that a lot of folks on right-of-center have gotten, frankly, lazy about, and that thereā€™s just a lot of entrenched orthodoxy that does not come in for questioning.ā€

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