In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.