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Jan 05, 2026 08:43AM
I think he does a good job summarising the inconsistency of the American right's position. His points are perhaps no great revelation, but I do think it's helpful to have them condensed into a short volume, identifying the logical fallacies, shifting standards and subversiveness of the right's recent and current positions. Having said that, I do think the argumentation is sometimes overly simplistic - it's no revelation that conservative Christian views are inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus, for instance; likewise the idea that the party that values law and order as a domestic policy should be consistent in keeping that value w.r.t. foreign policy, and moreover that the U.S.'s foreign policy should be consistent over a succession of Republican administrations, seems weak. It would be more interesting, in my mind, to consider the evolution of America's foreign policy towards isolationism or imperialism in contrast to their narrative and promises.
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