A Refreshing Level of Honesty, If Boneheaded as the Day is Long
Posted by TFG on July 4th, 2008
Matthew Yglesias (July 04, 2008) - Mixed Feelings (Culture)
I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.
Kee-rist, as they say in the pulps. That’s what an Ivy League education and a blog at THE Atlantic will get you — a queasy yearning for Queen and Country.
And they call us rednecks old-fashioned. Me, I only want to go back to the post-Civil War cowboy days, where nancies like this never poked their head over the horizon, and we hung horse thieves and murderers. The Permian Basin in full roar would be fun, too. Taking a knee to a monarch, though? Pass.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
And it plausibly could have been even awesomerer if progressivism and populism had been kicked to the curb and shamed into nonexistence beginning with William Jennings Bryan.
Honestly though, what is really on display here is young Mr. Yglesias’ ignorance of British history. Is he really longing for empire here?
July 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Beats me. That’s the way I read it last night, but I might have been intoxicated from the smell of smoked, pulled pork and some Mike’s.