Nowadays almost everybody describes themselves “fiscally conservative and socially liberal”. In recent years, the label has been applied to politicians as diverse as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, and Tom Mulcair. When politicians as disparate as these can all fit this description, it signals our politics are divorced from philosophical principles. To make our political choices meaningful again, argues Peter McCaffrey, we need politicians and voters who are more ideological, not more moderate.