NPR For The Rational Conservative.
It's Tuesday morning, in February. Trent England of OCPA is on a small radio station in the rural outskirts of the OKC metro area. He's talking about the hypocrisy of government-run gambling ventures. The irony he explains is that the gambling venture was sold to our past Democrat-controlled legislature as a funding source for better education. But Trent's own children tell jokes about the foolishness of gambling as a solution for personal poverty.

The Thoughtful Patriot
The show transitions later in the morning and Trent's special guest is a leader of the Oklahoma affiliate of the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU). With great diplomatic skill, Trent approaches the arch liberal representative as an ally on some key state issues.Eventually the two men are laughing in the radio studio. There is a trust; a mutual respect. That respect extends to Mr England's radio audience. Trent approaches important issues from a thought-provoking simplicity. He makes it easy for the listeners of all ages to understand the matter without any inherent condescension, the segments with the ACLU representative where approached with diplomatic skill. It's reasonable to believe they both walked away satisfied that a strategic bridge had been constructed so as to strengthen reform efforts, for all of Oklahoma.

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