Daniel's review of Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show
Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show by Geoffrey Nunberg
Tell me a story, Nunberg says. His ultimate argument, written and supported well, is that conservatives have woven this narrative in which liberals are these elitist snobs who are trying to put a gay marriage in every pot and kill all the babie they can get their hands on, resulting in the downward spiral of Western Civilization. Nunberg shows through careful analysis how this narrative is actually accepted even by liberals and the mainstream media despite its being demonstrably false.
In order to make leftist political ideas as reasonable and common sensical as they were in the days of FDR what is needed, he says is an alternative narrative where the elites are greedy lords of capital giving the working man the shaft courtesy of the GOP. Democrats seek to protect and advnace the interests of those who are working hard and playing by the rules.
It's a good story. More importantly, a true one.
In order to make leftist political ideas as reasonable and common sensical as they were in the days of FDR what is needed, he says is an alternative narrative where the elites are greedy lords of capital giving the working man the shaft courtesy of the GOP. Democrats seek to protect and advnace the interests of those who are working hard and playing by the rules.
It's a good story. More importantly, a true one.
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