The conservative love of
despotism
February 12, 2011 by
Jeffrey
Tucker
There were a few conservatives in 1989 and 1990 who quietly regretted the
anti-socialist revolutions in Eastern Europe and Russia. I was shocked
but learned something. Now we can learn something today by those who are
not-so-quietly expressing a preference for Mubarak over the rights and
liberties of the Egyptian people.
There is much more to say about this impulse, but it seems pretty clear
to me that this stems from rank religious bigotry, carefully cultivated
within the American right wing over the last ten years.
(
Thanks Pro Libertate.) This is from the Glenn Beck, the man who
praised Hayek and made The Road to Serfdom a bestseller. Now it is
unclear whether he ever read it. Meanwhile, the little would-be Mubaraks
at C-PAC
pretended not to notice Egypt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rFKCMGvwxE&feature=player_embedded
Note on comments: I’m very interested in similar examples of such
thinking, but not at all interested in hearing from people who agree with
Beck.
http://blog.mises.org/15660/the-conservative-love-of-despotism/
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