lpetrich
Contributor
Many right-wingers love conspiracy theories, and Kevin Roberts fits in perfectly. The John Birch Society, QAnon, ...Childless societies, Roberts claims, are “decadent and nostalgic,” but of course it is Roberts who is decadent, with his $675,000 D.C. think-tank salary, and nostalgic, with his beliefs that globalization can be undone if enough people read Xenophon and take Sunday off.
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But Roberts is convinced that the broad unpopularity of many of his proposals is due to conspiracy.
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Everywhere Roberts looks, he sees things he doesn’t agree with and smells hidden collusion.
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This paranoid style of American politics is what you get when you’ve lost the culture wars. Rather than admit that tradwifing out seven children while your husband spends 16 hours a day at FoxConnUSA is not what most Americans say they want, Roberts has no choice other than to argue that we actually do want this but the Elites and the Uniparty have brainwashed us.
Like helping other Americans vs. helping people elsewhere in the world.For all its love of violence and violent rhetoric, Dawn’s Early Light is strikingly soft on reason and persuasion; the Heritage Foundation these days appears to be all tank, no think. The prose is leaden and mealy-mouthed, and the rhetorical formula of every chapter will be immediately familiar to anyone who’s read any of these books before: cherry-picked example followed by sophistry, followed by hectoring. Arguments are riddled with false binaries that even the dullest child could see through.
KR has bumped up the publication date to November 12, 2024, a week after Election Day, November 5.
Why does he want to hide his book?