In reviewing the new book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks for the latest National Review, Joseph Postell offers observations that Jonah Goldberg would be certain to recognize:
This is the problem with facile appeals to comity and non-partisanship. When people innocently ask why the parties can’t get along, there is often a veiled assumption: The other side needs to stop dragging their feet and get with the program — our program. They would be perfectly willing to fight (rather than just get along) if it meant that their vision of justice would be enacted. Thus they display bumper stickers proclaiming “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” when in the opposition, and denounce partisanship when in the majority.
Compare that sentiment from Postell’s review with this excerpt from a September 2009 Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv interview with Goldberg.
