Posted on 11/16/2023 7:50:40 AM PST by Sam77
There’s some real anger spilling over at the Daily Wire this week but I think it’s fair to say this has been building up for a while now. Ben Shapiro, the co-founder of the Daily Wire, has obviously been one of the most outspoken defenders on Israel online. Candace Owens works there as one of their most prominent voices but she’s taken a very different view. For instance, she has argued that the charge of anti-Semitism has been “weaponized” to silence people.
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I agree with much of what you wrote. However, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin are fairly standard Fusion Conservatives. Victor David Hanson has followed much of the professional and intellectual path of the first generation of neoconservative intellectuals. I honestly don’t know where Glenn Beck stands.
Neither does Glenn Beck.
“When I said far worse, I mean far worse.”
I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I posted the huge number of civilian casualties that we knowingly inflicted in four bombing campaigns that targeted cities during WWII.
Fusion conservative
Gonna have to research that one Lew
Fusionism was a term coined by Frank Myer back when National Review published serious writers. He meant something like a blend of libertarian and traditional conservative thought.
This was during the early years of the nascent post WWII conservative movement which was building a coalition opposed to the dominant liberalism that had ruled the country since FDR.
I don’t think Meyer fusionism fits either Levin or Shapiro.
A lot of what passes for conservatism today is just the mainstream bipartisan liberal consensus of the 1960s.
A lot of the silly talking heads calling themselves conservatives think that anything that isn’t leftism must therefore be conservative. And so by repetition people think that the Gene McCarthy, RFK liberal pablum of Dennis Prager is conservatism.
They sure aren’t as cultural as me u or Lew
“They sure aren’t as cultural as me u or Lew”
The faux conservatives of mainstream GOP have had no interest in conserving American culture at least since the Presidency of GHW Bush. Witness the eagerness of his dimwitted son to attempt another amnesty so that America could more quickly become 3rd world. The grimacing of Jack Kemp at Pat Buchanan’s 1992 culture war speech said it all.
The mass invasion by the 3rd world that the Biden-Obama regime is sponsoring is receiving no opposition from worthless Republican Congress. An earlier generation would have used their power to shut down the government until law is restored and the invaders are booted out.
Name-calling, labeling, stereotyping, and other "identitiy" arguments are used to suppress free discussion of these things.
I will never forgive prager for what he did to Bob Grant.
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