If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
Jonah GoldbergWhenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom.
Jonah GoldbergAmericans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.
Jonah Goldberg[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
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