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(Democrat) Victor Davis Hanson reviews the book "South Park Republicans," and notes that the new puritans are on the left:
Dour, humorless, self-righteous, eager to use the coercive power of the state to impose ideological orthodoxy, so-called "liberals" and "progressives" had become enemies of freedom. These days the humorless, repressed enforcers of rigid standards of behavior are the politically correct professors and media pundits, the dour feminists ("That's not funny!"), the race-tribunes, and the identity-politics hacks that monitor the media and popular culture for any deviations from the party line of liberal dogma, multiculturalism, and victim-politics.
He's correct, in my opinion. It's not just coincidence that Massachusetts is one of the bluest of the blue states. Modern (il)liberal nannyism is a direct descendant of the Puritan strain in American history, brought there by the East Anglians who settled that region, as described by David Hackett Fischer in Albion's Seed. It continues to echo down the generations.
[Update on Saturday morning]
Someone notes that I didn't read carefully--it's on VDH's web site, but the review is actually by Bruce Thornton.
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 24, 2005 05:55 AM
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Rand,
This review was actually written by Bruce Thornton. Still makes me want to read the book.
Steve
Posted by Steve at June 24, 2005 05:27 PM
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