“By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists, and imbeciles, they paved the way” for someone who embodies their worst fears [Tom Nichols, Daily Beast in January]
“By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists, and imbeciles, they paved the way” for someone who embodies their worst fears [Tom Nichols, Daily Beast in January]
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Mary Shelley, call your editor.
There were shades of this in Scalia’s Windsor and Robert’s Obergefell dissents:
“It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race. . .In the majority’s telling, this story is black-and-white: Hate your neighbor or come along with us. The truth is more complicated.”
“It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same-sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority’s “better informed understanding” as bigoted.”
Someone who knows he’s right – absolutely knows it, to the point considering other views is pointless – scares me, even if I happen to agree with him.