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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Friends, I’m going to jet. Thanks for a stimulating discussion. RP
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Buy his book.
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Galaxy, one of the most powerful things Corey’s book reveals is that conservatives are frequently glad to turn morality and society on its head–they get off on it.
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Such a professor that way!
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
On the appeal of conservatism to the less-privileged, Corey, can you briefly sketch out your take on why that happens? I’m interested in your point, for instance, that the American workplace has so many gradations that someone always has dominance over someone else, and so can identify with an ideology of dominance.
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
All the facts are on our side. All the emotion is on theirs. In politics, emotion trumps facts. Which certainly doesn’t make things hopeless for liberals; our history is full of emotional narratives as richly satisfying as anything the right can offer (look at how successfully Obama tapped some of them in his campaign, back when we thought he was liberal–in fact, he exploited the emotional resources of liberalism at its best to get into power).
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
bmaz, my take on that question is that the conservatives as revealed in the above-the-radar media certainly seem stranger and fiercer now than the ones “back in the day.” But if you see how they reveal themselves in the documents the past leaves behind, the below-the-radar stuff, all you see are continuities, including in the strangeness and fierceness. that’s the difference Corey is getting to, I think, when he points out that they find less resistance today: since conservatives are in power, you simply see in public an ugliness that was always there, but used to be mostly buried, because they had much less power and voice.
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RickPerlstein commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Hi, friends and neighbors. Hi, Corey!
