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" Up there on the left, that&amp;#039;s Harry Dent, Sr. He was a conservative political strategist of the 1960&amp;#039;s and 1970&amp;#039;s. He worked for, among other people, the famous wandering and miscegenating penis, Strom Thurmond, and for Richard M. Nixon, who, back then, was not yet history&amp;#039;s yard waste. While working for the latter, Dent devised what has become known as the &amp;quot;Southern strategy,&amp;quot; by which he attached the Republican Party to the rising white counter-assault on the gains of the civil-rights movement, and to modern American conservatism, which already had done so, largely through the efforts of William F. Buckley and the National Review crowd. Dent begat Lee Atwater, who begat Karl Rove. In today&amp;#039;s column in The New York Times, in which he traces the current paradox of modern American conservatism, David Brooks mysteriously overlooks all the hard work Harry Dent and his acolytes did in making sure that conservatism could count on the backing of the supporters of American apartheid. Next to Dent up there is Jerry Falwell, with a very big Bible in his hand. He was a conservative preacher from the 1970&amp;#039;s until his death five years ago. Over those four decades, Falwell devised many ways through which modern conservative politics could be sanctified by the faith \u2014 and, especially, by the votes \u2014 of millions of Christians of the fundamentalist fringe, by which he attached the Republican Party to retrograde social policies. Falwell begat Ted Haggard, and Rod Parsley, and, to an extent, Glenn Beck. In today&amp;#039;s column in The New York Times, in which he traces the current paradox of modern American conservatism, David Brooks mysteriously overlooks all the hard work Jerry Falwell and his acolytes did in making sure that conservatism could count on the backing of the supporters of people who think that the 9/11 attacks were a punishment for lesbianism. Next to Falwell up there is Edmund Burke, a famous British politician and political philosopher of the 18th century. Remarkably, in today&amp;#039;s column in The New York Times, in which he traces the current paradox of modern American conservatism, in which he doesn&amp;#039;t mention Harry Dent, Jerry Falwell, or any of their ideological heirs, David Brooks does manage to mention him. Twice. And, finally... That&amp;#039;s Dorothy Day. She was the founder of the Catholic Worker, and the foremost proponent of Catholic social action in the 20th century. In today&amp;#039;s column in The New York Times, in which he traces the current paradox of modern American conservatism, David Brooks mysteriously overlooks her, but does assert that &amp;quot;This was the traditional conservative, intellectual heir to Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Clinton Rossiter and Catholic social teaching.&amp;quot; Ms. Day was a pacifist. If she weren&amp;#039;t, she&amp;#039;d have slapped David Brooks&amp;#039;s face for him. --Moral Hazard is on vacation. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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