we’ll need a word for
right wingers who can’t live in
world they helped build
Adapted from a passage in the New York Times Opinion Essay, The Vibe Shifts Against the Right by Michelle Goldberg, where Ms. Goldberg writes:
Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been “mugged by reality.” Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build.
According to the NYT, Michelle Goldberg has been an Opinion columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women’s rights and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment.
According to Wikipedia, Irving William Kristol January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American journalist and writer. As a founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the latter half of the twentieth century, He was dubbed the “godfather of neoconservatism”. After his death, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being “perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the century”. He is the father of political writer Bill Kristol.
It would almost be fun to be able to sit back on watch as reality (this IS Reality BTW, not a reality game show) comes over the right wing as the realize what they have done.
The cold water creeping over in the bath type of slow change.
The problem is, we are all in the bath together on this one.
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