Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Quotes
Liberal hypocrites like Mr. Weinstein were a big reason 63 million Americans voted for a conservative hypocrite like Mr. Trump.
Holman is commenting on the Harvey Weinstein scandal in which he is accused of multiple sexual assaults over 30 or more years and the lack of liberal and progressive outrage and passive acceptance of his behavior by large circles of people who knew.
Holman is commenting on the Harvey Weinstein scandal in which he is accused of multiple sexual assaults over 30 or more years and the lack of liberal and progressive outrage and passive acceptance of his behavior by large circles of people who knew.
Actually, there have been “paranoid” fear of opposition political viewpoints in America very often. In the early days of the Republic, the Federalists main concern was not England or other foreign enemies, but Jefferson’s Democratic Republicans. And those Jeffersonians were absolutely convinced that the greatest danger to America was the Federalists who would bring back a monarchy if they could. The Jacksonians triggered a similar polarization. The Civil War stemmed from this extreme. Even America’s most popular President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected to 4 successive terms, was perceived as the major “enemy” of America along with his wife Eleanor and the other New Dealers.
Lecture, FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, June 24, 2006
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What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.
So far as he was concerned, Republican moderates—his own party members—were liberals. Anyone who did not support the extreme Conservative agenda, was an enemy and a liberal. He and the Tea Party drove almost all the moderate Republicans out of the party.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. is a columnist, editorial writer and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. He writes the twice-weekly column, "Business World," which appears in the paper and online every Wednesday and Saturday. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Aside from writing for The Wall Street Journal, he has also written for Policy Review and National Review.
