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Can You Have A Hero Cult Without A Hero?

But if this is the choice they make, we’ll know that modern conservatism has ceased to become an ideology based on any kind of principle and has instead morphed, in the age of terrorism, into something not dramatically far removed in spirit from a hero-worshipping cult. ~Michael Tomasky

Tomasky reminds us what every informed person already knew: Giuliani is a horrible person who will do whatever it takes to acquire power.  Sounds like a winner!

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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