Daniel Larison makes me very happy, in that he (as far as I know) is the only conservative I can find who has repudiated Ericka Andersen's comments which excommunicated me, my family, most of my friends, most of the people I have loved, and many thousands of people I care for or admire, from real America and real American culture.
It bothers me, that more people aren't bothered. Telling people they cling to guns and religion, I guess, is a far worse crime than telling them straightforwardly that they aren't American, that they aren't America, and they never will be.
Watch out, by the way, for Daniel Larison-- Daniel Larison-- to be relegated to the same status of "leftist blogger" that Andrew Sullivan and John Cole have been. This is the party that you've built, conservatives, this is your baby, a vehicle fueled by exclusionism and eliminationism. And if any of you think that you can't be one of the ones pushed out of the tent... think again.
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Ms. Andersen is a news producer and reporter for HUMAN EVENTS. She previously interned for The Washington Examiner newspaper. She has appeared on MSNBC and Fox News.
Freddie: May I humbly submit that Ms. Andersen does not appear to be of the pope of America? (who is, as far as I understand, Morgan Freeman.) Her post was obviously weirdly hyperbolic and more than a little bit ridiculous -- why can't you accept that and move on? Why do you continue to take her seriously?
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I suspect that while you see internecine warfare, I see the ideological diversity that makes up conservatism.
Where you see people being pushed out of the tent, I see people hammering their 99 theses to the door and founding their own denomination. I find that the left's internal battles to be about priorities: which group's needs will be met first? I find the right's internal battles to be about ideology: what are the correct motivating principles for government action?, etc. This sort of debate is going to open up a lot of strains of thought; Larison is very clearly associated with one of them (paleoconservatism.)
I can't speak to Cole, because I don't read him enough. Sullivan has been, in my opinion, self-excluded because his issues (same-sex equality) have very little traction within the party. Larison's faction (a powerful one, with many followers) may well be back in charge of the tent at some point. Sullivan left the tent, possibly for good. -K.
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