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Q: What’s Wrong With This Tweet?

A: It's what's wrong with movement conservatism in 140 characters
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Red State founder Erick Erickson, who is nobody’s idea of a bleeding heart, posted this on Twitter:

And this is the response he got from some wingnut:

Mind you, Jimmy Rae is a nobody, with only a handful of followers. Still, his tweet symbolizes everything that’s wrong with movement conservatism today. There is no sense of the virtue of pietas, no sense of continuity with the past, no sense of prudence or balance or any of the other qualities that one traditionally associates with conservatism. Just mindless, malicious passion.

You see it on the Left too, of course. The spirit of liberality among movement liberalism is hard to find. It’s grim righteousness and mindless, puritanical intolerance.

I have come to hate politics. And to think that there was a time when I wanted politics to be my life, when I saw it as something exciting and hopeful and worth doing.

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