I remember Mona Charen brought that up to in her book Do Gooders. It was called the GRATE society.
A worthwhile article from WingNutDaily. Amazing.
That’s funny about Sean Hannity. BOR may be Ted Baxter, but it sounds like Hannity is the Joe Biden of political talk hosts.
The Ingrate Society fits it better
Gimme gimme gimme gimme . . . decades later look at this nation: divorce and illegitimacy rates, abortion, crime, drugs, the music and movie cultures, public “education”
food stamps, illegal immigrants, Medicaid . . .
The list goes on and on . . .
Lyndon Baines Johnson - the only President to lose two wars - Vietnam and “The War on Poverty”.
Krauthammer might know how to parrot conservative ideas.
However, this knowledge doesn’t eliminate the fact that he also knows how to take subtle but damaging potshots at the advancing edge of conservatism, while he hides behind enemy lines.
Krauthammer’s strategy is to voice his support for conservative ideas or personalities when support for them is already saturated and there’s no risk that he might actually help conservatism. And then he immediately shoots down novel ideas or new candidates when they threaten to advance conservatism against the ruling class.
Krauthammer is so ruling class it’s not even funny. I will never take him seriously.
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