Perhaps VDH reads and understands the FR 'type' too much for you?
"-- Those in an auto parts store in Fresno, or at a NASCAR race in southern Ohio, might appear to Europeans as primordials with their guns, "fundamentalist" religion, and flag-waving chauvinism.
But it is they, and increasingly their kind alone, who prove the bulwarks of the West.
Ultimately what keeps even the pope safe and the continent confident in its vain dialogues with Iranian lunatics is the United States military and the very un-Europeans who fight in it. --"
No, but he appears to have a major blind spot about Catholics and the Pope, in this article at least. I hadn't noticed it before.
And, no, I have no problems with NASCAR fans or energetic Americans. That part of it doesn't bother me at all.
That was the best paragraph of the whole article!
Not in the slightest.
He is a Democrat, and is painting the Democrat's stereotypical version of conservatives.
Cheers!