Blinders

The rather strange and if you ask me esoteric controversy over Alan Wolfe and his article claiming a fascist origin for much of contemporary conservatism has led to some foolish and dangerous comments in The Weekly Standard. They of course involve criticism of Dinesh D'Souza...

To claim that by promoting, among other things, abortion, gay marriage, pornography, and atheism, the cultural left presents a threat to America as grave as that posed by radical Islam is seriously wrong and foolishly divisive. To make such an argument while America is at war with a fanatical adversary who regards all Americans as combatants and who seeks not concessions or reforms but America's annihilation is to blur critical issues when the rediscovery of our common ground is what is urgently called for.

He is right to that it is "seriously wrong" that "the cultural left presents a threat to America as grave as that posed by radical Islam". It poses a more serious threat. A threat that existed before the threat of radical Islam and that no doubt will exist after radical Islam has ceased to be a threat to us. A threat that has destroyed more American lives than radical Islam. A threat that is all the more dangerous because it's seriousness is not recognized and in fact is believed by some to be a positive force in our society.
Yet the "conservative" Weekly Standard seems to be oblivious to all of this. It seems to be gripped by a fatal complacency that blinds it to dangers at home in the hope that our cultural miasma will somehow provide a bulwark against foreign Islamic threats. The rather insane "rah-rahing" of Rudolph Guliani by many on the Right is just one of the symptoms of this delusion.