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Hurrah! The Wolves Are Turning On Each Other! Redux

Dan McCarthy makes some very smart points about the Coulter brouhaha.  The problem is not that Coulter predictably says obnoxious things, but that when it comes time to dissent from any party line on anything that actually matters she is mute or, worse, serves the role of an enforcer.  Her fake image as this hard-charging, truth-telling conservative, while always somewhat absurd for a lawyer who clerked at the Supreme Court, doesn’t even have the benefit of unsettling the functionaries and lackeys by using her popularity to oppose or criticise the GOP when it is going wildly astray (as it always is).  All the more reason why it would be far better to ignore her and her remarks than to rush about declaring how appalled everyone is supposed to feel.  This lends her credibility as some sort of rebel or dissenter when she is anything but that.  She is a party hack, of course, and should not get much sympathy now that her fellow wolves have turned on her.

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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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