followers have a full dichotomy between ideology and reasm and they fail to understand wh americans have understoo since the beginnings of our reagan solution is there such a thing ideals that can be married to circumstances that we can have nonideological principal politics. now, beaconsfield conservatism arises in the early 19th century and deals with thpolitical circumstances of 19th century england of the landed gentry rich elite that is threatened by democratic urges tt are different than the democratic urges and ameca. rememb england we like to think of as the mother of our country but it did not have a democracy by american standards til 1918. udall impactful male suffrage in britain until after world war i when beaconsfield and the ties are forming their politics. they don't have to appeal to a mass electric. burden doesn't have a democratic revolution. we were founded under the democratic revolution dedicated to certain abstract ideals. they were reacting against the revolution that was non-democratic that proclaimed the guilty to similar idea but were quite different than american princi

ron was pentecostal, i am not, but i understoo how he was raised. >> why is that important for the reader >> well, you have to put your reader in that place. you've got to -- you have to take your reader a way to some other place that he or she has never been before. and to me that's good storytelling. that's what i always try to do. i wanted toeally capre the feel of this small town. and also in small towns, when there is a murder people want justice. they want it fast. they want somebody else to die for it. small town america, especially in this part of the world, oklahoma, arkansas, mississippi were i were i to a. they love the death penalty. and they want to use more often. those people are frustrated because, those people, the majority of the people in the south, southwest, midwestern, wherever, small town america, they want the death penalty used more often. they are frustrated by the fact that these guys did on death row for 10, 15 years as the appeals drag on. they are frustrated that they wanted people executed. we are here in virginia. virginia ranks behind only texas in the num