Thursday, September 22, 2016

"John Oliver Explaining the News to You, Forever"

"Something like this happened once before: In the 1960s and 1970s, the culture shifted decisively leftward, but American voters shifted to the right and answered a cultural revolution with a political Thermidor.
"That Nixon-Reagan rightward shift did not repeal the 1960s or push the counterculture back to a beatnik-hippie fringe. But it did leave liberalism in a curious place throughout the 1980s: atop the commanding heights of culture yet often impotent in Washington, D.C."

Ross Douthat in The New York Times warns that "the feeling of being suffocated by the left's cultural dominance is turning voting Republican into an act of cultural rebellion."

And Damon Linker at The Week warns that "[t]he more that forms of political, moral, economic, and legal universalism spread around the globe, the more they inspire a reaction in the name of the opposite ideals."

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