05-31-2020, 10:33 AM
(05-31-2020, 10:11 AM)David Horn Wrote: News flash! George Will, he of the bow tie and perpetual conservative bent, has started calling people like Trump and others of his ilk, [url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...story.html]conservative authoritarians[/url]. If it's reached that far into the old right, it may be immutable.
I could go with that.
George Will Wrote:The moral of this story is not that there is theocracy in our future. Rather, it is that American conservatism, when severed from the Enlightenment and its finest result, the American Founding, becomes spectacularly unreasonable and literally un-American.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.