{"id":14143,"date":"2008-01-05T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T19:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14143.html"},"modified":"2008-01-05T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T19:55:43","slug":"jonah-goldberg-fears-completely-unhinged-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/jonah-goldberg-fears-completely-unhinged-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg fears ‘completely unhinged’ Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is worried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[A]fter reading this regrettable excess from Ezra Klein as well as all of the more reasonable but nonetheless hopeful, proud, idealistic and sincere sentiments of pride and well-wishing for Obama as the first serious mainstream black contender for the White House (some, but by no means all, of these sentiments shared by yours truly) , I think it’s worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he’s the nominee — and then imagine he loses<\/i>. <\/p>\n

I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary’s inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he’s denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, as Glenn Greenwald noted<\/a>, “I wonder: in Jonah Goldberg’s ‘imagination,’ which (ahem) ‘certain segments’ of the American population exactly will ‘become completely unhinged’ if Obama loses and thereby spawn ‘social unraveling’? And who are the people who are going so deeply to fear this “social unraveling” that they vote for Obama just in order to keep those ‘certain segments’ in line and well-behaved?”<\/p>\n

And second, the only modern example of “certain segments of American political life” growing “completely unhinged” came during a little something known as the “bourgeois riot<\/a>” in which Brooks-Brothers Republicans helped stop a manual vote recount in Miami in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is worried. [A]fter reading this regrettable excess from Ezra Klein as well as all of the more reasonable but nonetheless hopeful, proud, idealistic and sincere sentiments of pride and well-wishing for Obama as the first serious mainstream black contender for the White House (some, but by no means all, of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}