Why I really enjoy reading Matthew Yglesias’ blog:
“Oh John, why do you waste your time thusly? But while we’re on the subject, the extent to which Reynoldsism — the doctrine that “the left” (whatever it is) has been captured by an irrational and pathological hatred for western values — is a dishonest, absurd, and manipulative piece of propaganda is the least of its problems.
“The thing here is that when you tease out the argument Glenn’s trying to make, the consequences are completely absurd. The anti-west faction of the west turns out to include the majority of the citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, The United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The citizens, in other words, of every countries normally understood to be inhabited by western persons except for the United States and Israel.”