“Somehow we’ve gotten to a place where the bullying, sanctimonious, preening of Obama-style liberalism is seen as cool and rebellious. There\u2019s no reasoning with what makes things cool. But radical? You\u2019d have to scrape contemporary liberalism against a whetting stone for a week just to get it to \u201cedgy\u201d status. Virtually all the institutions of power young people interact with \u2014 schools, colleges, bureaucracies, corporations, Hollywood etc \u2014 are liberal. And yet these kids think they\u2019re rebelling against something! What? Peaceful and hardworking Christians who live a hundred miles away?”<\/p>\n
—\u00a0Jonah Goldberg, The Goldberg File, 5\/31\/13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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