Ann Coulter has a new conspiracy theory: The American government (less often than she thinks, but never mind that) allows people who benefit from government services to vote for candidates who support perpetuating them. This is classic Coulter – first she argues that shredding the federal government is supported by everyone except for wealthy Hollywood celebrities and a pathological underclass – then that tax-cutting Republicans have it rough because so many Americans greedily want to keep paying taxes and benefiting from the services they pay for. Conservatives, of course, never vote their economic interest…
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Andrew Sullivan, rightly blasting Bill Bennett’s attack on gay rights, concludes with a telling indictment:
It’s not an argument. It’s the rhetorical embellishment of a privilege. Conservatism has always been prone to such a trap.
Perhaps Sullivan, one of the strongest proponents of driving a wedge between civil rights and economic justice as ideologies and as movements, should take his own words to heart.