Clod and Man at Yale
Monday October 30, 2006
Daniel McCarthy writes that to be a campus conservative used to mean you cared about ideas. Now, for the most part it means you've become a partisan of "mindless Republican boosterism." Ah yes, the Romanian Miners Brigades of the Right. Of course, left-wing campus politics has long been intolerant, but when I was on campus at least, back in the dark ages, it was the Right who (plausibly) made fun of the left for its political correctness.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Ha! (Love your headline.)>
In my experience, to be a member of the College Republicans has long been associated with "mindless Republican boosterism." I graduated from Yale in 2004 and that about sums up what I saw for 4 years. Alumni friends had similar experiences.
There are still some campus conservatives out there with more than a little intellectual honesty and ability to think critically. But they don't have much to do with the CRs, and they haven't had much to do with the CRs for several decades at least.>
There's always the possibility of making fun of both campus lefties and campus righties ...
Political people, patooie.>
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