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Nate Cohn on the Republican Path to Victory in 2016
It’s narrow. Here’s Nate Cohn at The New Republic: [I]t looks like Republicans will need to count on the appeal of their 2016 presidential candidate and economic fundamentals to overcome the party’s limited appeal. In other words, Republicans need a … Continue reading
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Tagged conservatism, demographics, GOP, immigration, immigration reform, Republicans, tea partiers
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“The Jesus Candidate”: Rick Santorum’s Messiah Complex
ABC News reports a weird rally declaration made by Rick Santorum this week. He sees himself as the presidential “Jesus candidate”: Santorum told the audience about a radio interview out of Boston he did earlier today [Thursday]. According to Santorum, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Christianity, hypocrites, Jesus, nationalism, religion and politics, rick santorum, rush limbaugh, santorum, tea partiers
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Occupy Wall Street: The Left’s Answer to the Tea Party?
My guess is that the “occupiers” of Wall Street are on the cusp of an activist movement that will rival the Tea Party in influence: the right has its contemporary movement for underground men and the left now has its equivalent. … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, America, Chris Hedges, occupy wall street, Politics, tea partiers, tea party, wall street
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Let My People Go: Reconsidering the Tea Party
I have of late been rethinking the meaning of the Tea Party to American politics. My first take was dismissive: this movement is the same type of Herderian nationalism that, last century, brought Hitler and his merry band of crazed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, conservatism, Exodus, liberalism, libertarianism, Moses, tea partiers, tea party, the soul, virginia postrel
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The Debt Crisis: Niall Ferguson Said It Would Come To This
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, back in November of 2009, wrote the following for Newsweek: History strongly supports the proposition that major financial crises are followed by major fiscal crises. . . . This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt … Continue reading
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Tagged America, debt, debt crisis, economy, emperialism, fiscal crisis, government, niall ferguson, rush limbaugh, tea partiers
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American Tea Party Politics Arrives in China?
Mark Lilla, writing in the New Republic, tells a fascinating anecdote, which occurred just a few years back, of an end-of-semester discussion that he had in his office with a bright student from Beijing that he taught at the University … Continue reading
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Tagged carl schmitt, China, conservatism, herderianism, leo strauss, nationalism, neoconservatism, tea partiers, weimar
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Human Toll
A news article in the Los Angeles Times this morning cited a statistic that startled me. I had no idea that this many service members have been dismissed from the armed services in the United States, since the early 1990s, as a result … Continue reading
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Tagged America, civil rights, dadt, don't ask don't tell, equality, Fox News, freedom, gay equality, gays in the miltary, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, tea partiers
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Total Message Control Solution #1: Just Handcuff Any Journalist Who Asks Questions That You Don’t Want to Answer
Total message control (that is, the Palin model) was on disturbing display on Sunday in Alaska. This from Glenn Greenwald: [P]rivate “guards” working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, authoritarianism, conservatism, free speech, journalism, Politics, rush limbaugh, tea partiers, tony hopfinger
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Chris Hedges on the Tea Birchers
In a recent TruthDig essay, Chris Hedges (I think accurately) sizes up the Herderian Tea Party movement in America, and where it is moving us: There is a yearning by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement, … Continue reading
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Herderian Religious Cleansing, 1930s style, in Malaysia and the United States
Here’s an image of a book burning in Berlin, May 10, 1933: And here’s an image of a burned out synagogue after Krisallnacht (November, 1938): These two images are what anti-Enlightenment Herderian political action so readily devolves into. And now here … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, freedom, ground zero mosque, herder, herderianism, herderites, Hinduism, Islam, religious intolerance, tea partiers
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Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin Have No Jeffersonian Clothes: Ron Paul Favors the Building of the Ground Zero Mosque and Castigates Its Opponents
The so-called ground zero mosque is generating a rift between Jeffersonian libertarian conservatives and those who identify with the Herderite Tea Partiers. The latest evidence of this split can be found in a statement released by the libertarian congressman, Ron Paul, who wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvinism, ground zero mosque, Islam, Jesus, muslim americans, newt gingrich, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, tea baggers, tea partiers, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson
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Prometheus Unbound 