One interesting quirk of the current situation is that the Republican Party seems overwhelmingly likely to respond to a John McCain defeat by trying to cocoon itself more deeply in conservative orthodoxy. On some level, that’s pretty well understood, Ross Douthat is right that this Rush Limbaugh monologue laying the groundwork really deserves to be read and savored on its own accord.
The use of the term “intellectualoid” for conservative media figures with whom Rush disagrees is a pretty fascinating development.
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