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is a culture of a shared sense of cultural grievance and the conviction that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

is a wrongheaded ideology whose tenants form an organic base whereby 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa. Rick Perlstein

is, for the right, possessed of a racial component, consciously or unconsciously, and is taken as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. Rick Perlstein

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