Whereas pressure groups try to promote a cause (change the status quo), interest groups try to defend it (maintain the status quo).
Conservatism, political doctrine that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices.
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Kellyanne Conway, Conservative Snowflake The walls are closing in on the White House, so she took massive umbrage at a totally fair question to paint herself as the victim of a sexism that doesn’t exist.
Acton Institute; American Enterprise Institute; Center for Immigration Studies; Center for Security Policy; Center for the National Interest; Charles Koch Institute
The left’s latest pejorative is racist, sexist, and stifling of honest debate.
ACU is the nation’s oldest conservative grassroots organization and seeks to preserve and protect the values of life, liberty, and property for every American.
An advocacy group is a group or an organization which tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government. History Beginnings
The National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) is arguing in a new paper that stock buybacks benefit workers and the economy, pushing back on criticisms from Democrats that the recent uptick in buybacks shows that the tax law predominantly benefits the wealthy and corporations.
One of the dangers in America today is the small number of individuals it takes to destroy the reality that has been the cultural and social norms of the country.