The Sanchez story heats up – predictably because of hypocrisy. No surprise who else is in Club Hypocrisy.
Max Blumenthal
…Conflicted Conservatives in Crisis.
CCC’s are aggressive toward groups they privately identify with, like sexual minorities or independent women, but they are simultaneously submissive to those who might otherwise persecute them. Thus, Coulter assiduously cultivated the approval of James Dobson, an anti-feminist demagogue who advocates “women’s submission;” Sanchez enlisted in the Marines, then joined the right’s campus culture war; and Haggard inveighed against homosexuality from the pulpit. These CCC’s scurried away from freedom for the tight confines of an authoritarian movement. For CCC’s, backlash politics is a crude form of therapy.
The CCC phenomenon explains why so many of the right’s most bigoted and hysterical figures are eventually unmasked as frauds. Sanchez may be drummed out of the movement after today’s revelations, and Coulter may lose advertising revenue and allies after her latest paroxysm of hate, but the show will go on. So long as conservatism is propelled by the politics of resentment, it will continue to attract and generate CCC’s.
