Epitaph for the libs?

I’m not usually a fan of Ann Coulter’s one-note diatribes against liberals, but I think she’s captured something here: liberals have become so nutty that they don’t matter any more. No one listens to them. “Liberals have been completely intellectually vanquished,” she writes. “Actually, they lost the war of ideas long ago. It’s just that now their defeat is so obvious, even they’ve noticed.”

Does this mean that liberalism is actually finished? Of course not. Liberalism, under whatever name it may go, is the beating heart of modern Western civilization, and will last as long as that civilization lasts (though how long that will be is another question). It does mean, however, that the mainstream liberalism of recent years, based on little more than hatred of Republicans and Bush, is washed up for the forseeable future. Liberals have become like black activists in the aftermath of the Florida election fiasco: at every venue, they’re respectfully given their equal time to rant and rave, to accuse Bush of “disenfranchising” blacks and using police dogs to “suppress the black vote,” but no one pays attention to them any more. No one even bothers to refute them. It’s not worth the trouble.

Here’s a Coulter quotable that sums up today’s Dems perfectly:

Howard Dean—chairman of the party that supports murder, adultery, lying about adultery, coveting other people’s money, stealing other people’s money, mass-producing human embryos for spare parts like an automotive chop shop and banning God—has called the Republican Party “evil.”

However, in the flush of the “conservative” triumph over the loony libs, Coulter also admits, half-humorously, half-plaintively, something that’s been obvious about her and some other well-known conservative writers for a long time: apart from scoring points off flagrantly vicious and crazy liberals, she doesn’t have much to say herself:

Liberals are too pathetic to write about. I have nothing to do; my life is over.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 10, 2005 07:37 PM | Send