This is a very nicely written paragraph, with a bonus John the Baptist reference a few paragraphs later (“Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey,” which is as good a description of Bernie Sanders as any, and paleo to boot):
It is not true that the American Left has no interest in “our traditions and our Constitution.” The Left is very interested in our traditions and our Constitution — it hates these and wishes to see them destroyed. The Left’s war on the Constitution goes back to the foundation of American progressivism under Woodrow Wilson, who considered the Constitution outmoded and a hindrance to intelligent administration. The line of thinking extends straight into modern progressivism: Harry Reid’s attempt to gut the First Amendment in order to put political speech under government control, a proposal endorsed by every Democrat in the Senate; other related progressive attempts to destroy the Bill of Rights, beginning with the First and Second Amendments but by no means limited to these; the contention by progressives, typified by Ryan Cooper, that “the American Constitution is an outdated, malfunctioning piece of junk”; Senator Sanders’s call for “revolution”; etc.
We’ve been hearing of social distancing because of the coronavirus. But when I hear “social distancing,” I think of the social distance between the two major parties and the social distance between coastal elites and normal Americans. These topics include, as Kevin Williamson pointed out, respect for the Constitution. They extent to abortion, “drag queen story hour,” firearms, Prius vs. F-150s, God vs. Godless, etc.
That social distance keeps increasing. The bonds holding these United States together were once strong, as recently as the 1950s or maybe much of the 1960s. Since then the social distance has been growing greater and greater. The once-mighty bonds are under increasing stress. When do they break? Then what?
This is a very nicely written paragraph, with a bonus John the Baptist reference a few paragraphs later (“Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey,” which is as good a description of Bernie Sanders as any, and paleo to boot):
We’ve been hearing of social distancing because of the coronavirus. But when I hear “social distancing,” I think of the social distance between the two major parties and the social distance between coastal elites and normal Americans. These topics include, as Kevin Williamson pointed out, respect for the Constitution. They extent to abortion, “drag queen story hour,” firearms, Prius vs. F-150s, God vs. Godless, etc.
That social distance keeps increasing. The bonds holding these United States together were once strong, as recently as the 1950s or maybe much of the 1960s. Since then the social distance has been growing greater and greater. The once-mighty bonds are under increasing stress. When do they break? Then what?