What makes her passing particularly sad is that there are ever fewer people in politics with not only her magnitude of character and wisdom, but also with the comprehensive understanding of conservatism in its fullness that she - and, of course, Dutch - had.
Even the best of the ascending generation of statespeople among us seem to have worldviews that are to some degree skewed by their pet concerns rather than grounded in the conviction that right and wrong are absolutes.
Hats off to someone who was instrumental in giving Western civilization a few more years of breathing room before the Big Rot set in.
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