'What Happened' for Conservatives
October 4, 2017 at 12:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
The
Washington Post says '
How the Right Lost Its Mind' by Charlie Sykes is a sort of '
What Happened' for conservatives.
The culprits are not James Comey, Vladimir Putin or a reality television opponent, but the return of crackpotism on the right; the fecklessness of conservative media, political and religious figures; and the rise of a distorted worldview in which Trumps overwhelming character flaws mattered little to a base that behaved as though civilization was in play in his election.
It is a sanitized image of conservatism, no doubt, but Sykes seems heartfelt in his lament. The insanity he purports to chronicle on the book cover, the title is stitched across a red baseball cap did not begin in 2016 or 2015, or even during this young millennium. Sykes reminisces about the mid-20th century, when his hero, William F. Buckley Jr., was casting out Birchers and Ayn Rand devotees from the conservative movement
But todays conservatives have failed to do the same.
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https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/04/what-happened-for-conservatives/