If you read one thing today... (UPDATED)

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How do the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the lionization of Jesse Helms explain the bankruptcy of the conservative project? Read Ezra Klein. The brother nails it.

UPDATE: Actually, read this, from Ezra, today. That young man is The Truth. And read this great comment to his first post, which I entirely endorse: elegant and penetrating:

Ultimately Limbaugh has been terrible for conservatism. The Republican presidential candidates crammed themselves into his tiny corner of unpopular positions. Now they're stuck there.

Come to think of it, conservatism has been terrible for conservatism.

Posted by: Chris | July 7, 2008 11:59 AM





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