Got your book! Just realized that the blue rectangles on the cover are 1950's refrigerators.
Re Douthat and similar GOP hangers-on: Some of them are just maliciously trying to confuse the fence sitters so they do not realize the GOP is irredeemably plutocratic. Some think they are being helpful to the cause of plutocracy by pointing out how the plebeians can be given bread and circuses without truly inconveniencing the plutocrats, And some associate the Democrats with the cool kids that they were never allowed to hang out with in high school, thus denying them access to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and for which they have held a grudge ever since. I am not sure where Collins fits, but Douthat is definitely in the last category.
Got your book! Just realized that the blue rectangles on the cover are 1950's refrigerators.
Re Douthat and similar GOP hangers-on: Some of them are just maliciously trying to confuse the fence sitters so they do not realize the GOP is irredeemably plutocratic. Some think they are being helpful to the cause of plutocracy by pointing out how the plebeians can be given bread and circuses without truly inconveniencing the plutocrats, And some associate the Democrats with the cool kids that they were never allowed to hang out with in high school, thus denying them access to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and for which they have held a grudge ever since. I am not sure where Collins fits, but Douthat is definitely in the last category.