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The black man loses his “blackness,” which is a state of grace and nothing to do with skin color. Clarence Thomas isn’t “really” black but Bill Clinton is, in the same way that the Eucharist literally becomes the body of Christ. Similarly, the disabled object of empathy and veneration becomes a hateful heretic, and eugenics remains a taboo that mus
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The New Right seeks to discredit and obliterate the power of the corporate press. “My goal is to destroy the New York Times and CNN—and not just them,” Andrew Breitbart once explicitly said.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
the claim that comparatively “retarded” Americans should not have their views heard in political discourse is still precisely how both progressives and National Review conservatives regard populists to this day.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

For the evangelical left, those who suffer largely exist as mechanisms for others’ salvation, but not as beings with consciences of their own—or more precisely, they are allowed to have their own conscience if and only if it fits into their salvation model. Else, they can be considered as corrupted.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
ANDREW J. BACEVICH,
Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition

“Even if a group of people can agree on how to treat people in the moment, consensus can change at any moment. Today’s virtues can become tomorrow’s vices. Like a sand castle, the tenets of morality can be destroyed by the tide of public opinion.” — David Pernell