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Passing Down the Legacy of Conservatism?
Oh, it's boot camp for the next generation of Hasterts and Santorums.
As you might expect, even this slavish piece makes it sound arrogant and elitist, with the poor put-upon denizens of the Right once again acting like they're under attack from all sides. The brainwashed students that attend these things--their poster child is a 19-year-old, home-schooled, on-her-way-to-evangelical-Wheaton-College-this-fall drama queen who signed on because she is looking for a way to justify her right-wing beliefs without having to rely on "Oh, it’s because I was raised this way," although she clearly was and that's clearly the reason for said beliefs--look to musty old texts by Kirk, Friedrich, Heyer, and Buckley from the 40s and 50s for solace because they can't face up to the fact that no one is writing seminal conservative texts anymore because it's not a movement anymore.
Telling quotes:
One common trait is a reverence for Reagan, who left office when [most attendees] were infants. Most focused less on his policies than his magnetism, what Lauren Wilson called his “immense amount of character.”
“I love Ronald Reagan,” said Ms. Wilson, who attends Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. “One of the biggest things was his affection for Nancy; it’s just obvious they were each other’s world.”
Some conversation strayed from the canon. Dormitory banter cheered on Ann Coulter, the best-selling provocateur. . . . [One lecturer] lamented the prosecution of Kenneth Lay, the late Enron executive convicted of fraud, by asking, “Do you think it’s possible for a rich person to get justice in the U.S. today?”
That gagging sound you hear? Was me.
Oh, it's boot camp for the next generation of Hasterts and Santorums.
As you might expect, even this slavish piece makes it sound arrogant and elitist, with the poor put-upon denizens of the Right once again acting like they're under attack from all sides. The brainwashed students that attend these things--their poster child is a 19-year-old, home-schooled, on-her-way-to-evangelical-Wheaton-College-this-fall drama queen who signed on because she is looking for a way to justify her right-wing beliefs without having to rely on "Oh, it’s because I was raised this way," although she clearly was and that's clearly the reason for said beliefs--look to musty old texts by Kirk, Friedrich, Heyer, and Buckley from the 40s and 50s for solace because they can't face up to the fact that no one is writing seminal conservative texts anymore because it's not a movement anymore.
Telling quotes:
One common trait is a reverence for Reagan, who left office when [most attendees] were infants. Most focused less on his policies than his magnetism, what Lauren Wilson called his “immense amount of character.”
“I love Ronald Reagan,” said Ms. Wilson, who attends Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. “One of the biggest things was his affection for Nancy; it’s just obvious they were each other’s world.”
Some conversation strayed from the canon. Dormitory banter cheered on Ann Coulter, the best-selling provocateur. . . . [One lecturer] lamented the prosecution of Kenneth Lay, the late Enron executive convicted of fraud, by asking, “Do you think it’s possible for a rich person to get justice in the U.S. today?”
That gagging sound you hear? Was me.