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10 Nov 2009 07:55 am
Identity Politics On The Right
Napoleon Linardatos reads Matthew Continetti’s 4,700 word missive to Sarah Palin so you don't have to:
The
sole legitimizing force behind Sarah Palin is the persecution that her
supporters perceive that she is subjected to. It’s a movement – if we
could call it that – animated by its sense of victimhood. The quantity
and ferocity of criticism directed at Palin, right or wrong, is the
ultimate arbiter of her worth as a political figure; what she has done,
what she promised to do, what she could do, don’t seem to matter.
And so it is with Matthew Continetti’s “The Palin Persuasion”, an essay
of more than 4,700 words trying to make the case for Sarah Palin in
American politics. It’s extraordinary that in this long essay we don’t
have any arguments for Sarah Palin emanating from things that Sarah
Palin has done. After more than a year in the national political stage,
the dynamism of the Palin phenomenon is entirely dependent on the
convulsions it generates in the two extremes of the political spectrum.
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