Blame Newt...
For the GOP's uncompromising/anti-centrist streak. Sure, they suffer from several other types of craziness, too--e.g. their love of Judeo-Christian zealotry, and their anti-science orientation. But their scorched-earth/anti-compromise approach to legislating was kicked into high gear by Gingrich.
Funny that modern conservatism has been so motivated by it's fear of/revulsion at the French revolution, and by its anglophilia...and yet the GOP's approach is so much more French than British...
Newt's a nut with delusions of grandeur...but that, unfortunately, makes him a perfect fit with contemporary American conservatism...
For the GOP's uncompromising/anti-centrist streak. Sure, they suffer from several other types of craziness, too--e.g. their love of Judeo-Christian zealotry, and their anti-science orientation. But their scorched-earth/anti-compromise approach to legislating was kicked into high gear by Gingrich.
Funny that modern conservatism has been so motivated by it's fear of/revulsion at the French revolution, and by its anglophilia...and yet the GOP's approach is so much more French than British...
Newt's a nut with delusions of grandeur...but that, unfortunately, makes him a perfect fit with contemporary American conservatism...
posted by Winston Smith at
3:58 PM
1 Comments:
I've been following Newt since the 90's and have long considered him one of the most vile and toxic figures in recent decades, a narcissist sociopath with no ethical principles beyond marketing the Newt brand name. When the history books are written I think he will be rightly regarded as one of the 3 principals who destroyed American politics, the other two being Tom Delay and Grover Norquist. Krugman said it best, that Newt is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person should sound like.
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