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P.J. O’Rourke’s 2004 tongue-in-cheek titled book Peace Kills lampooned American foreign policy saying “imperialism has never been so funny.” He took the reader globetrotting while pointing out what happens when America tries to have a war “without hurting anybody” (Kosovo). Visiting Egypt in the aftermath of 9/11 he said: “There is a question that less sophisticated Americans ask (and more sophisticated Americans would like to): Why are the people in the Middle East so crazy?” We laugh because it’s true. Fourteen years later, America’s war isn’t so much in far-flung regions with people calling us imperialists, but more so with our neighbors, coworkers, family, and friends. America is at war with itself.
Good point. But we can remind people who are inclined to vote for Democrats that they are voting for people who advocate violence against others, who favor mob rule, and who oppose the rule of law.
One of the perennial (and I think inherent) challenges for “the Right”) is that the people who are inclined toward the right either don’t have time to engage in lots of political activism (because they’re actually building things and raising families), or consider their time more profitably spent on the things they do (building things and raising families) than on abstract political activism.
Protecting self-defense (gun) rights and protecting the lives of unborn children are concrete and relatively specific targets that people who are inclined to lean right can work with.
That doesn’t even work for Nevers. How’s it gonna work for people who are at least self-aware enough to call themselves Democrats.
That is astonishing, isn’t it? (Or would be, if we hadn’t seen it building for decades already…)
I’m sick of him. I rarely even open his pieces.
Yes, but also with some anger; some very appropriate, commensurate-to-the-situation anger.
Very well put.
Which is sad for me, because he used to be one of my few must-reads.
Same here.
“I could take him or leave him” – The Couch