Last week, I [Kevin Williamson] was invited to speak to a group of very (mostly) nice conservative activists, as I do from time to time. I enjoy these talks and am grateful for the opportunity, but I sometimes wonder why people invite me to speak at these things. The people who turn out for these events tend to be very active, very partisan Republicans, committeemen and county chairmen and that sort of thing. And what do I tell them? “Your party is corrupt and dysfunctional, your candidates are mostly somewhere between pathetic and loathsome, none of this is as important as you think it is, and you need a lot less Fox News and a lot more confession and penance.” This message is not what you would call universally well-received. Conservatives have grown so used to being pandered to that they have become as sensitive as Bryn Mawr undergraduates, on high alert for the most subtle slight or insult. And I’m not that subtle.
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