Posted on 12/13/2021 7:39:38 AM PST by Salman
The slow and often comical decline of Official Conservatism™ starting somewhere in the Bush years has offered many insights into what has gone wrong since the middle of the last century. It is as if the tide is slowing going out, revealing many things that had previously been hidden under the waterline. Or, as Warren Buffett would say it, the tide has gone out and we now see who was swimming naked.
An example of this phenomenon is a piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks in The Atlantic in which he bemoans the state of conservatism. This is becoming a staple of The Atlantic. Two weeks ago, they gave the sanctimonious poseur David French the chance to whine about the “new right’s strange and dangerous cult of toughness.”
In the case of Brooks, he is doing the dramatic-exit act. This is when someone who is about to be escorted out of the party declares she is leaving and makes a big scene on the way out the door. In the case of Brooks, he is stomping off long after everyone at the party forgot he was still there. The only people who think Brooks is right-wing are his imaginary friends he uses in his columns. His sandwich-poor high school dropout friend will be crushed by news of his departure.
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No such thing is true. Progressivism gave us this oligarchy. Progressivism is America's cancer.
That's why the progressives had to devise schemes like (among other things) the "living and breathing constitution".
The Constitution prevents this oligarchy. The progressives had to find ways to get around this obstacle called "The Constitution of the United States" first.
Or, more succinctly: Masculinity = Toxic Masculinity.
You should post that as a poll. I am #4 and #8, overlapping as you say. Then there are the Anti-Immigrationists (legal and illegal) which might overlap with #6 Isolationists but not synonymous.
Thanks.
Forgive me, but code or not, I still don’t have the foggiest idea what he was trying to say.
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