Why Conservatives Love Larry
The travails of Larry Summers continue to provide conservatives with proof that liberals are running out of control.
(It's a big day for Larry Summers news, for some reason.)
In the Chicago Tribune, Victor Davis Hansen, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, proclaims that "
liberal Democrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break, shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera."
On college campuses, the old leftist intolerance of unwelcome free speech is back with a fury. A guest spokesman for the Minutemen immigration reform group was shouted down at a recent Columbia University lecture. Earlier, Harvard's liberal president Lawrence Summers was forced out after timidly questioning academic orthodoxy about the role of women in science and engineering.
Back with a fury, eh? One isolated incident of shouting down a speaker, another incident involving prolonged discontent with a university president and his managing style.
That'd be like me reading one op-ed by a Stanford academic and concluding that all conservative Republicans are blathering idiots....
Mr. Hansen goes on to ask,
What sends liberal criticism over the edge into pathological hysteria?
Is it that George W. Bush is a polarizing figure, not just in terms of his Iraq policy, but also because of his Christian Texan demeanor?
His Christian Texan demeanor?
Here's the point: Mr. Hansen may not be particularly thoughtful. But his interpretation of the Summers' ouster has quickly become accepted gospel among conservatives. Thus is history made.
