P.J. O’Rourke, “We Blew It”

I don’t think anyone here has yet linked P.J. O’Rourke’s much-discussed post-election post-mortem from last month on the failures of the organized Right. O’Rourke doesn’t quite address the themes of this site directly, but keeps brushing up close by them, starting as early as the second paragraph:

Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet …

For some reason the bit about itchy clothes irresistibly puts me in mind of Mark Twain, the rise and fall of whose reputational fortunes on left and right would make for a post of its own at some point.

About Walter Olson

Fellow at a think tank in the Northeast specializing in law. Websites include overlawyered.com. Former columnist for Reason and Times Online (U.K.), contributor to National Review, etc.
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1 Response to P.J. O’Rourke, “We Blew It”

  1. mtraven says:

    For some reason this calls to mind Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin. The Party has been let down, it has clearly lost sight of the true nature of (conservatism) (Marxism/Leninism), we need to do better in the future. We are absolutely certain that our party, armed with the historical resolutions of the 20th Congress. will lead the Soviet people along the Leninist path to new successes, to new victories.

    And we see how well that worked out.

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