the object of terrorism is to use violence to advance your political program, right? so, then all of a sudden, weird crackpot ideas about entitlement to sex are in the most important paper in the country. under a certain view, that's a success, correct?
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3) the idea that society naturally builds on "past revolutions" rather than overturning them (conservatism is premised on constant reaction to past revolutions); and on and on...
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4) Like so much Douthat, it's glib and superficial in a way that can only be premised on a refusal to engage deeply with the actual work of those conversant in and engaged substantively in the topics at hand. To wit: ignorant or dishonest. Or both
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5) & of course the implicit theme is Douthat's standard: the *real* cause of incel rage is the loss of "traditionalism," & the only *true* solution is a return to that mythic traditional order, & rejection of modernity. He's basically an ostensibly more civil Jordan Peterson
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