Blake Seitz is assistant editor for the Washington Free Beacon. Blake graduated from the University of Georgia in 2015. Contact him via email at seitz@freebeacon.com. Follow him on Twitter @BlakeSeitz.
It is not novel to point out that most artists dislike Republicans and aren't shy about letting you know it. They hated Reagan so much they created an entire music genre, punk rock, to trash him. They hated W. so much they assassinated him on film—twice.
Straussians love to talk about their conversion stories, which typically involve revelations in undergraduate courses taught by disciples of Leo Strauss. "The class was on the Nicomachean Ethics," begins the generic form of this story. "We didn't get past Book I." My introduction to Strauss was less revelatory.
Takoma Park, Md., Jan. 20—The congregation of about 80 huddled together in the room, awaiting the descent of the spirit. The messiah they had followed for years during his public ministry—the man whose rebuke could lower the seas—had departed. Many struggled to hide bitter disappointment. He had not been the leader they had hoped for, had not turned his mass of followers into a lasting force. Instead he left them vulnerable in a world that despised them, in which the vulgar temporal authorities mocked and persecuted them. Had they deluded themselves? Did not their hearts burn within them while he spoke to them on the road to Washington? That seemed so long ago.
The New York Times has published more than two-dozen articles about the "alt-right" and white nationalist movements since the November elections, an invaluable signal boost for the tiny coalition of racists.
In the immediate days after the U.S. presidential election, the New Republic convened "five leading historians and political observers" to discuss President Obama's threatened legacy. A lengthy transcript of that discussion appeared in the magazine's postelection print issue, accompanied by a full-page photograph of the president bathed in radiant white light.
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